Descirption: The author of the best-selling and universally adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series now gives us The Forever Girl, a novel about love and following one's heart, and the unex*pected places to which this can lead us.

Amanda and her husband, David, feel fortu*nate to be raising their son and daughter in the close-knit community of ex-pats on Grand Cay*man Island, an idyllic place for children to grow up. Their firstborn, Sally, has always listened to her heart, deciding at age four that she would rather be called Clover and then, a few years later, falling in love with her best friend, James.

But the comforting embrace of island life can become claustrophobic for adults, espe*cially when they are faced with difficult situa*tions. At the same time that Clover falls in love with James, Amanda realizes that she has fallen out of love with David . . . and that she is in*terested in someone else. While Amanda tries to...