About the Author
MATTHEW DICKS is a writer and elementary school teacher. His articles have been published in the Hartford Courant, he has been a featured author at the Books on the Nightstand retreat, and he is a Moth StorySLAM champion. He is the author of three previous novels, Something Missing; Unexpectedly, Milo; and Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, an international bestseller. His novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Dicks lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife, Elysha, and their two children. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Unexpectedly, Milo
Something Missing
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Matthew Dicks
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE PERFECT COMEBACK OF CAROLINE JACOBS. Copyright © 2015 by Matthew Dicks. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Kerri Resnick
Cover illustrations of desks © Moolkum/Shutterstock
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Dicks, Matthew.
The perfect comeback of Caroline Jacobs: a novel / Matthew Dicks. — First edition.
pages; cm
ISBN 978-1-250-00630-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-8632-2 (e-book)
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 3. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3604.I323P47 2015
813'.6—dc23
2015017808
e-ISBN 9781466886322
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First Edition: September 2015
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