An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.

When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in.

A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield.

In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 11/12/2013
ISBN: 9780316098861
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2013 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2013
Romantic Times 11/01/2013 pg. 40 - Excellent
Library Journal 11/01/2013 pg. 83
People Weekly 11/25/2013 pg. 56
Shelf Awareness 11/26/2013
BookPage 11/01/2013
Library Journal 06/01/2013