Particularly successful in building suspense . sensitive and ambitious.

-New York Times Book Review

A knockout of a novel-impressive in its scope but at the same time intimate and personal . an extraordinary book.

-Elisabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman knows suspense like Hitchcock . But what distinguishes the novel is its characters . They] give this fine novel its power.

-Washington Post

A book that provokes thought and is most entertaining to read.

-Los Angeles Times

The story's power comes from its daring and imaginative scope, its sense of humanity and human connectedness across . the 'small' events of life and the larger events which come to be called history.

-Dallas Morning News