Simply Alice

Life After Patrick

It isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay. In fact, working on the school play and becoming increasingly involved in the newspaper have Alice so busy she doesn't have much time for her best friends Pamela and Elizabeth -- and they resent it.

And if Alice ever needed friends, she needs them now. She's got a secret e-mail admirer she's not sure how to handle. Her brother, Lester, is plunging headlong into a risky romance with a professor. And her new friend, Faith, seems unable to break free of an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. It's not simple being simply Alice.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the author of more than one hundred books, but the Alice books are some of her most favorite to write. She has a photographic memory of her teenage years, and knows both the heartache of breaking up with a boy and the excitement of finding herself on her own with a lot of choices before her. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Rex, and they are the parents of two grown sons. She enjoys communicating with readers on the Alice Web site: http://www.simonsays.com/alice.