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<p><b>From internationally bestselling author John Boyne comes a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward.</b> <p>The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. <p>But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? <p>Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.<br><b>___________ <p>Praise for John Boyne</b> <p><b>'A master storyteller'</b> <i>Daily Express</i><br><b>'One of the best novelists of Ireland' </b><i>Sunday Express</i><br><b>'Boyne offers writing of insight and beauty'</b> <i>Observer</i><br><b>'One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature' </b>Colum McCann</p>