For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others to her haunted mother to her enigmatic father to her husband and grown children When she finally crosses a terrible boundary her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imaginedUnfolding over the next twenty-four hours this searing fast-paced audiobook explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters wives and lovers the meaning of devotion and the line between love and hate It is a challenging moving gripping story written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold has