A woman is found in a Los Angeles graveyard, unable to remember anything about herself or her life. No one is more surprised than she when, days later, her husband comes to the police station to take her home - and turns out to be Hollywood's leading superstar, Alex Rivers. Cassie Barrett begins to remember bits about her life: her passion for her career as an anthropologist, the whirlwind romance on location in Africa, her childhood. But she senses there is something troubling in this perfect life that she can't remember; and then, when she sees a pregnancy test, it all comes flooding back - and once again, Cassie feels there is no alternative but escape...
| ISBN | 0340897953 | | Pages | 448 | | ISBN13 | 9780340897959
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 580 | | Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Hodder & Stoughton Ltd | | Height (mm) | 223 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 148 | | Publication date | 29 Oct 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'A riveting, unfailingly intelligent, and undeniably literary psychological drama.' -- Booklist 'Picoult writes with an all-knowing and piercing eye.' -- Library Journal 'Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution' -- Sunday Express 'Jodi Picoult's novels often focus on lives turned upside down by some terrible event, and it's her way with the small emotional detail that makes them so rewarding' -- Marie Claire
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