The much-anticipated second novel by the Man Booker Prize finalist and
national best-selling author of The Hiding Place is a harrowing,
elegant, and vivid portrait of a lost life at last reclaimed. Winnie
would say she's no trouble, content to let the days go by, bothering no
one. Living on the edge of nowhere, she'd rather not recall the past
and, at seventy-two, doesn't see much point in thinking too much about
the future. But when her closed existence is shattered by a random act
of violence, Winnie is catapulted out of her exile. Robbed of everything
she owns, she embarks on a journey to track down her stolen
belongings-but soon finds her search has become the rediscovery of a
stolen life. As Winnie pieces together the fragments of her life, her
once-secluded world begins to fill with people: her devoted father; the
haunting figure of her mother; her domineering grandfather; and Joseph,
her only love. At last Winnie understands that she has not escaped from
her life at all; she has simply been circling it. Now she must come to
terms with the final revelation, one so profoundly shocking that she had
concealed it even from herself.