In the No. 1 Oprah's Book Club bestseller, midwife Sibyl Daniforth performs an emergency Caesarian to save the baby of a woman she believes has died of a stroke, not realising that this decision will haunt her forever.
When college student Laurel Estabrook is attacked while cycling through the forest trails in Vermont, her life is changed forever. So begins Chris Bohjalian's stunning new novel which travels between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
Set in the last few months of the Second World War, one of the most brutal periods in human history, this is an extraordinarily powerful and moving story of a terrified German family on the run from the advancing Russian army.