The Stolen Marriage

b>'Fans of Jodi Picoult's style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes' Candis/b>b>'I love Diane's writing' Cathy Kelly, author of The Year That Changed Everything/b>The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, Pretending to Dance and The Midwife's Confession.In 1944, Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life, marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night and Tess quickly comes to realize that she is now trapped in a strange and loveless marriage.The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not?When a polio epidemic strikes the town, taking the lives of some of its children, the townspeople band together to quickly build a polio hospital. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry's wishes and begins to work at the hospital. As Henry's actions grow more baffling and alarming by the day, can she untangle her husband's mysterious behaviour and save her own life?

Product details

• Authors: Diane Chamberlain
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.01.2018
• EAN: 9781509808557
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-0855-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), North Carolina, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Small Town & Rural, Family Life / General, Psychological, Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Historical / World War II