A Place Called Here

A Place Called Here

A Place Called Here is a novel written by an Irish writer Cecelia Ahern. It was published in 2008.

The book is about Sandy Shortt who has an obsession with finding things. She spends her life looking for lost people. She used to work for the garda but now, runs her own private company. Her obsession started when her neighbour, Jenny May Butler, went missing when she was ten. Then Jack Ruttle appears, looking for his younger brother, Donal, who went missing a few years ago. He asks Sandy for help - and she agrees, but doesn't expect to become lost herself, stumbling upon a place where every missing thing seems to be, along with her own belongings from the past.

The book was titled "There's No Place Like Here" for release in the United States. "Here" refers to the name of the place where missing things, like Jenny-May Butler and Sandy Shortt, as well as objects end up.

In the book, the characters put on a performance of "The Wizard of Oz" sans the musical component. In "Oz" Dorothy is transported home after repeating three times, "There's no place like home," hence, the spin on the title.

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