The Distance Between Us : The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet

Author(s): O'Farrell, Maggie,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 26/02/2013,
Pagination: 384 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Tinder Press,
Published By: Headline Publishing Group,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 197 x 130
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780755302666

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Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of HAMNET. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller 2004 and won the Somerset Maugham Award.

On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous.

They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand.