While I was gone

In 1968 Jo Becker's innocence was shattered when her friend is murdered. Thirty years later she is drawn into a flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

Main Author: Miller, Sue, 1943-
Other Authors: Brown, Blair. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York : Prince Frederick, MD : Random House Audio ; Distributed by Recorded Books, p1999.
Subjects:
Summary: In 1968 Jo Becker's innocence was shattered when her friend is murdered. Thirty years later she is drawn into a flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.
Item Description: In container (22 cm.).
Title from container.
"Abridged"--Container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 5 sound discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 9780739365717
0739365711
Author Notes: Sue Miller was born November 29, 1943. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1964. She was a high school teacher, a cocktail waitress and a model before becoming a full time mother. Soon after the birth of her child, she divorced her first husband. Afterwards, she founded the Harvard Day Care Centers and worked as a preschool teacher. At the age of 35, she began writing after joining a writing workshop.

Her first novel The Good Mother (1986), which is about a divorced woman caught up in a fierce custody battle, was on the bestsellers list for six months. Her other works include Family Pictures (1990), For Love (1993), The Distinguished Guest (1995), and While I Was Gone (1999). She also has a short story collection titled Inventing the Abbotts and Other Stories (1987).

Several of her books have been adapted into movies including The Good Mother (1988), which was directed by Leonard Nimoy and starred Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson; Family Pictures (1993), which starred Anjelica Houston and Sam Neill; and Inventing the Abbotts (1997), which starred Liv Tyler. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Smith College.

(Bowker Author Biography)