The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLASLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Run away one drowsy summer's afternoon with Holly Sykes wayward teenager broken-hearted rebel & unwitting pawn in a titanic hidden conflict Over six decades the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining & as life in the near future turns perilous the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival