The Marble Collector: The life-affirming, gripping and emotional bestseller about a father’s secrets

The Marble Collector: The life-affirming, gripping and emotional bestseller about a father’s secrets
Cecelia Ahern

A box of possessions. A father with no memory. A daughter with just one day to piece together the past.When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father’s belongings, her seemingly uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts.In the single day she has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew, a man who can no longer remember his own story, Sabrina uncovers far bigger secrets than she could have imagined. And discovers that sometimes it’s the people closest to us that we know the least.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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Source ISBN: 9780007501847

Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780007501830

Version: 2018-06-22

Dedication (#u4fe0091b-fb11-5499-b18f-4f8de357c73b)

For my Sonny Ray

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ue5cea444-cef4-51b8-a4bf-339ee6048d3f)

Copyright (#ubc4c310b-249c-524e-8381-df6f24daac3f)

Dedication (#u23300c79-9e8d-57bd-83d7-bedc2cfbaefc)

Epigraph (#udc7a5394-d206-56c9-89f3-d1734b11dd64)

Prologue (#u02ede78f-ef77-563d-ba14-718c76ee3ccc)

Chapter 1: Playing with Marbles (#u8cfb68cd-bf04-559e-9be8-4aab8e91f213)

Chapter 2: Pool Rules (#u2cb73e7b-5931-5a51-a67a-c68841e66669)

Chapter 3: Playing with Marbles (#u893da8cf-a081-596c-91b5-7bdcdeef8a46)

Chapter 4: Pool Rules (#u4eb35191-89ff-5a25-ba85-1d59ce177b17)

Chapter 5: Playing with Marbles (#u2f84abc7-6d13-5823-900d-90ab65e3198b)

Chapter 6: Pool Rules (#u1678c233-ba1c-5874-97f1-de31482385e6)

Chapter 7: Playing with Marbles (#uda73cc93-8c8d-590c-b9c7-645aeab77635)

Chapter 8: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21: Playing with Marbles (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22: Pool Rules (#litres_trial_promo)