Songs Without Words Ann Packer

There was something so very familiar about this book, about the authors style, that I kept thinking I must have read other of her books. But something very odd had happened to me when I got this at Barnes and Noble. I didn't chose it. I didn't, but it was in my bag when I got home, and it was the first book my hand found when it dove into the bag, in a hurry, on my way to coffee. And I don't think I did ever read her books.
So I read the reviews, and two struck me. One from the Winston-Salem Journal said "A novel of friendship so authentic and complex that one cannot read it wwithout examining the subtleties of one's own friendships." And another said "Her characters step out of the pages and into your heart." It is about friendships, a troubled teen-age girl, and the relationship between her two parents-what I loved was the way each character had had his/her own voice, and I loved the detailed descriptions of each person.
So now I will go look for other of this authors works.