Book description
On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't
seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she
does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle
of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are
becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but
both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so
remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in
Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will
understand. Gripping, insightful and deft, this is Maggie O'Farrell's
finest achievement to date. Maggie O'Farrell is the author of five
novels, After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us,
which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and
The Hand That First Held Mine. Born in Northern Ireland, Maggie grew up
in Wales and Scotland. She lives in London with her husband and two
children.
