An epic story set against the backdrop of World War I from bestselling author Anita ShreveWhen an American woman Stella Bain is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her inA gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest Stella had been working as a nurses aide near the front but she cant remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefieldIn a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.
