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First-time novelist Levy scored a bestseller with this book in his native France. It is a light, frothy tale of love conquering all, even a coma. Lauren Kline, a medical resident at San Francisco Memorial Hospital, is young, beautiful, and content with her life. Then a faulty steering mechanism in her old clunker of a car causes her to suffer head injuries in a shattering car accident. As she later explains, she could hear everything around her in the hospital recovery room, but could neither move, see, nor speak. She learns that she is languishing in a coma, having somehow survived being pronounced dead. Enter Arthur, an architect and partner in a restoration firm, who recently moved into an apartment and finds it comes equipped with an unexpected bonus-Lauren. Well, her spirit, anyway, since her body continues to reside in the very hospital in which she worked. She's not dead, so the apartment-dwelling Lauren is not actually a ghost, and she seems to have form and substance, but only Arthur can see and hear her. Readers learn that for months she has been psychically transporting her spirit all over the city until she finally comes back to her own apartment-now Arthur's. This feel-good story is an easy and engrossing read, and it should be particularly popular with teen girls.

If you have seen the movie "Just Like Heaven" and enjoyed it, this is the book for you. Set in San Francisco, it is a book of faith in what is unbelievable. Is it the afterlife, or the inbetween life? What happens to a soul when the body is caught in a limbotic state?

Find out in a book about a woman comatose, and a man who found himself assisting her, devoid of the knowledge that he needed to.

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This is an entirely different book then I have ever read. An interesting twist to a love story. I enjoyed it very much.

The basis for the movie "Just Like Heaven" with Reese Witherspoon. The book was about as good as the movie....not great but mildly entertaining.

DIscover a beautiful ghost in your closet? No way! Yep! Arthur, a young San Francsician architect is faced with this dilemma when her finds Lauren in his apratment. Lauren is actually in a coma-and that's wehere the fun begins. Of course they fall in love-but can't be together if they do the right thing-or can they.

Great, fun, fast read!

LOVED THIS BEAUTIFUL STORY OF A PERSON FINDING A GHOST IN HIS CLOSET.

What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet; particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her---and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town?

Enjoyed this ghostly story.

Sweet, unexpected love story.

What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet; articularly when she's surprised that you can even see her - and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or should you consult one yourself? Or do you take a chance and believe in her, and allow yourself to be swept up in an extraordinary adventure?

This is the beginning of the dilemma that Arthur, a young San Francisco architect, is faced with when he discovers Lauren in his apartment.

Arthur is the only man who can share Lauren's secreet, the only one who can see her, hear her, and talk to her when no one else so much as senses her presence. So when doctors prepare Lauren's physical care - which would destroy the magical bond she and Arthur cherish - he must find a way to save her. For, after all, it is only her love that can save him.