A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen''s husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees.

In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk -- and her fears of discovery.
Against the force of the wintry sea -- the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks -- Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new lifeTwo married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But this calming respite ends suddenly, leaving in its wake a murder, a rape charge, a suicide and a helpless child.
Nearly nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English -- abused, accused and imprisoned -- are given to her daughter by the journalist who made her name reporting the caseThe truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer . . .



Format Häftad Omfång 384 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2000-02-03 ISBN 9780349105864