For fans of the film The Big Chill" Anne Tylers " Dinner at Homesick Restaurant" & Siri Hustvedts " What I Loved" in her fourth novel " Carry the One" Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one nights terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning following a wedding reception a car filled with stoned drunk & sleepy guests accidentally hits & kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years the lives of those involved are subtly shaped by this tragic moment. Through friendships & love affairs marriage & divorce parenthood addiction & the modest calamities & triumphs of ordinary days " Carry the One" shows how one life affects another & how those who thrive & those who self-destruct are closer to each other than wed expect. Praise for " Carry the One": " Heres passion & addiction guilt & damage all the beautiful mess of family life. " Carry the One" will lift readers off their feet & bear them along on its eloquent tide". (Emma Donoghue). " Carol Anshaw is one of those authors who should be a household name.. .[a] fine eloquent novel". ("USA Today"). " If you love Jonathan Franzen youll love this compelling book". (" Entertainment Weekly"). Carol Anshaw is the author of " Aquamarine" " Seven Moves" & " Lucky in the Corner". She lives in Chicago."