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.