
Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality? From the bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF WATER this enormously gripping & powerfully wrought novel asks the questions we all have about ourselves & definitively places Anita Shreve among the ranks of the best novelists writing today. Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door & the news of her husbands fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief she is forced to confront disturbing rumours about the man she loved & the life that she took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husbands memory & her desire to know the truth Kathryn sets off to find out if she ever really knew the man who was her husb&. In her determination to test the truth of her marriage she faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep & the actions a woman is willing to take.