The Consolation Prize Table of Contents

Prologue 

Chapter 1 

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7 

Chapter 8

Chapter 9 

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14 

Chapter 15 

Chapter 16 

Chapter 17 

Chapter 18

Chapter 19 

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23 

Chapter 24 

Chapter 25

Chapter 26 

Epilogue 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Begin Again—Table of Contents

Part I 

Part II 

Begin Again—Part I

Part I
October—18 Months After

Alice’s husband had left her.

It wasn’t a secret, but it wasn’t something she’d broadcast either. Some things were meant to be mourned privately. This was one of those things. Yet somehow, everyone and their goddamned mother seem to know.

Every time it came up, Alice felt the shame of it all roll over her again, hot and sick, like it was all her fault. She supposes, most days, that it is all her fault. She is, and always will be, the reason he decided to leave. It’s a fucking joke that she sometimes pretends—pretends she could have stopped him.

So, when Patti Dobbs says it, Alice isn’t surprised. Not really. She feels as if someone has taken the back of her head and slammed her face down on the desk between them. But, surprised?

No.

The Consolation Prize

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