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The Girl in Times Square
Paullina Simons
A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie?Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent, find love. Adrift in bustling New York City, the most interesting things in Lily’s life happen to the people around her. But Lily loves her aimless life … until her best friend and roommate Amy disappears. That’s when Spencer Patrick O’Malley, a cynical, past his prime NYPD detective with demons of his own, enters Lily’s world. And a sudden financial windfall which should bring Lily joy instead becomes an ominous portent of the dark forces gathering around her.But fate isn’t finished with Lily.She finds herself fighting for her life as Spencer’s search for the missing Amy intensifies, leading Lily to question everything she knew about her friend and family. Startling revelations about the people she loves force her to confront truths that will leave her changed forever.From a master storyteller comes a heart-wrenching, magnificent and unputdownable novel.This is the odyssey of two young women, Lily and Amy, roommates and friends on the verge of the rest of their lives.
PAULLINA SIMONS
THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE
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Source ISBN: 9780007118939
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007383979
Version: 2018-05-24
Dedication (#ulink_80c021b9-57d8-59b3-92a4-44cdbd453e62)
For my sister, Elizabeth, as ever searching And for Melanie Cain, who has been to the crying room
Epigraph (#ulink_d2edec10-645d-510f-9ed1-521cca2aaf13)
In the Vatican after they have chosen a new pope, they lead him to a room off the Sistine Chapel where he is given the clothing of a pope. It is called the Crying Room. It is called that because it is there that the burdens and responsibilities of the papacy tend to come crashing down on the new pontiff. Many of them have wept. The best have wept.
PEGGY NOONAN
Contents
Cover (#u2fbb36c5-caff-5747-aa9e-068c91dd28eb)
Title Page (#u72a465a6-143c-58d2-994e-24727400ba11)
Copyright (#ulink_86d703fa-31d5-5693-b4a2-b982c87bff87)
Dedication (#ulink_75dd8694-2278-5195-8dec-d2507d84d1e4)
Epigraph (#ulink_fab94f46-f0fe-5d74-97fb-e721e2cf0863)
The Past as Prologue (#ulink_08485193-da2f-53dc-b58a-6786b5491450)
Just Before the Beginning
Lily Quinn (#ulink_bab109e6-7193-53c2-8f98-1951527c1303)
Allison Quinn (#ulink_96f4dc6e-0309-56c9-b1f4-b924bdc1339f)
A Man and a Woman (#ulink_d3ad7ac7-04bc-5604-a0bd-49a723eea1df)
Part I. In the Beginning (#ulink_c542fb0e-ebf1-5c67-8bee-fea06f785878)
1. Appearing To Be One Thing When it is in Fact Another (#ulink_9e0cd9bf-3c21-51b9-ae10-733b6aebdbd7)
2. Hawaii (#ulink_8f2089ef-092d-5cd6-88ff-a7698cb7c593)
3. An Hour at the 9th Precinct (#ulink_47717268-dc64-58c5-bf8d-be2fb8d6d594)
4. Wallets on Dressers (#ulink_5e20b23c-b00c-5d75-b7e9-50d430658cd1)
5. Spencer Patrick O’Malley (#ulink_e2f30285-a5fc-5052-b9ca-0a7b507497af)
6. Conversations with Mothers (#ulink_4c328652-6208-52f7-9933-9162be1d8ad4)
7. Birds of Paradise (#ulink_8362f3c4-ce64-5e81-944f-f88afbf31d2c)
8. The Disadvantages of Walking to Work (#ulink_a79d0171-8936-52cd-991d-67f98b09f661)
9. Ignorance in Amy’s Bed (#ulink_1a3502a6-76f1-5b6e-bb2c-57a5f9534e98)
10. Things in the Closet (#ulink_5b3894d7-d1f6-58d5-b4f8-1536fa223631)
11. Spencer Patrick O’Malley and Lilianne Quinn (#ulink_2bab3590-c68f-55c9-8386-2e38f44c4477)
12. A Little Rented Honda (#ulink_9cc69625-300b-5043-848e-be0749ebd270)
13. Lily and the City of Dreams (#ulink_d45d5338-dd07-57cd-a4ad-f2977b9a1f15)
14. Riding Shotgun (#ulink_f44a09a2-73a6-55f3-9976-c051ffbefd27)
15. Spencer’s Twelve Tickets (#ulink_dc33833e-d71e-5bd9-9c79-882474395b50)
16. Reality: The Actual Thing that it Appears to Be (#ulink_361bfa28-c335-524c-bce9-1f5c941974b2)
Part II. The Middle of the Road (#litres_trial_promo)
17. The Biggest River in Egypt (#litres_trial_promo)
18. Fertility Options (#litres_trial_promo)
19. Fibers of Suspicion (#litres_trial_promo)
20. Just Another Saturday Night for Lily (#litres_trial_promo)
21. Just Another Saturday Night for Spencer (#litres_trial_promo)
22. In the Garden of the Barber Cop (#litres_trial_promo)
23. Chemotherapy 101 (#litres_trial_promo)
24. Meet the Parents (#litres_trial_promo)
25. Chemo 202 (#litres_trial_promo)
26. The Church on 51st Street (#litres_trial_promo)
27. Liz Monroe and 57/57 (#litres_trial_promo)
28. The Soup Kitchen (#litres_trial_promo)
29. Spencer Stuck Twice (#litres_trial_promo)
30. Advanced Chemotherapy (#litres_trial_promo)
31. Advanced Interrogation (#litres_trial_promo)
32. Andrew’s Alibi (#litres_trial_promo)
33. The Laugh Track (#litres_trial_promo)
34. Lily’s Stations (#litres_trial_promo)
35. Lily’s Mother is Here (#litres_trial_promo)
36. Lily’s Stations, Continued (#litres_trial_promo)
37. Beautiful People (#litres_trial_promo)
38. Cancer Shmancer (#litres_trial_promo)
39. Larry DiAngelo as Imhotep (#litres_trial_promo)
Part III. The End Game (#litres_trial_promo)
40. Lily as an Ancient Egyptian (#litres_trial_promo)
41. Shopping as Healing (#litres_trial_promo)
42. The Financial and Eating Woes of a Lottery Winner and a Cancer Survivor (#litres_trial_promo)
43. A Little Thing about Spencer (#litres_trial_promo)
44. The Muse (#litres_trial_promo)
45. A Masters Course in Chemo (#litres_trial_promo)
46. The Mighty Quinn (#litres_trial_promo)
47. Harkman (#litres_trial_promo)
48. The Yellow Ribbons (#litres_trial_promo)
49. Baseball as a Metaphor for Everything (#litres_trial_promo)
50. April Fools (#litres_trial_promo)
51. At Internal Affairs Once More (#litres_trial_promo)
52. Failing Test Number One (#litres_trial_promo)
53. A Cop First (#litres_trial_promo)
54. Infernal Affairs (#litres_trial_promo)
55. Failing Test Number Two (#litres_trial_promo)
