THE END OF LONELINESS

by Benedict Wells · 2016

After the sudden death of their parents, eleven-year-old Jules Moreau and his older siblings, Marty and Liz, are sent to a bleak boarding school. There, the three orphans drift apart—Marty buries himself in academics, Liz escapes into reckless behavior, and Jules, once vivacious, retreats into a world of memory and solitude. Everything changes when he meets Alva, a mysterious girl with a hidden past of her own. Their shared understanding of loss forges a deep bond, but life pulls them onto separate paths, and they lose touch. Years later, as adults still haunted by their fractured family, Jules and Alva are given a second chance. But the past is never far behind, and fate has one more twist in store. A sweeping, tender novel about grief, resilience, and the enduring power of human connection, *The End of Loneliness* is a luminous meditation on the lives we might have lived—and the love that refuses to let us go.