"How quickly a carefully constructed life can unravel! ... Abbott has peered over the edge to write this gripping novel, a reminder of how little control we have over our lives."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"Stirring ... Abbott has created a memorable book, and readers will ache along with the principal characters."
--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Gracefully constructed and wholly consuming."
--"Associated Press"
"[A]n elegant debut filled with anguish and yearning ... Abbott takes these broken relationships and slowly works over their frayed ends with a delicate touch, sometimes mending them and other times hitting exposed nerves ... It's a very careful novel in its structure and revelations, but Abbott impresses most in his easy balance of the disparate plot elements ... and overarching themes of reconnection and regret."
--"Publishers Weekly
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"A powerful and well-written portrayal of loss and grieving. Highly recommended."
--"Library Journal" (starr

David Abbott began his career as an advertising copywriter and went on to found one of the U.K.'s outstanding advertising agencies, Abbott Mead Vickers. He is widely recognized as one of the industry's most deservedly celebrated creative directors. This book, many years in the making, is his first novel.