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by Wayne Johnston (Author)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"An absolutely unforgettable novel."--Ian Williams
Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. Bethany, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond--an obsession that has deeper and more disturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel's life--and his own--Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee.
Author Biography
WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His bestselling novels include The Divine Ryans, A World Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York, Baltimore's Mansion, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1998, was nominated for sixteen national and international awards including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist defended by Justin Trudeau. His most recent book is Jennie's Boy, a memoir of six life-or-death months of his childhood. He lives in Toronto.
