Girlfriend in a coma (1998)

Others: Positive

A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.

ISBN:: 9780060987329
Length:: 284 pages

Genres: science fiction

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