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Sometimes life can change in an instant. Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but they weren't. Weeks after a tragic accident, all that is left are eerie connections between the two girls, former classmates who both kept the same secret without knowing it. Now, even while on vacation at the ocean, Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. Things only get more complicated when Martha begins to like Jimmy Manning, a neighbor boy she used to despise. What is going on? Can life for Martha be the same ever again?

這本書的書名雖是奧莉的海洋，奧莉卻不曾出現。幾個星期前，奧莉騎車在街上被車子撞倒，就這樣一位安靜、不怎麼出色、向來獨來獨往的女孩，在十二歲那年悄悄地消失在世界上。同樣十二歲的馬莎竟然因為奧莉留下的日記，而有了一段奇特的生命經歷，改變了她對許多事物的看法，這一段發生在夏天的經歷，透過馬莎細膩的心思緩緩地從書頁傳遞出來。畫插畫的漢克斯，他的文字看得到畫面，這些圖像化的文字讓他的作品有一種獨特的魅力。而人際關係和情感一直是青少年文學處理的重點，漢克斯多年在圖畫書中展現的能力，也在這本作品中得以充分發揮。