The Lives of Stella Bain

Anita Shreve

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English

Abacus
30 September 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916,

an American

woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas

gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of

memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw,

and her name is Stella Bain.

A stateless woman in a lawless

country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering

an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to

London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist,

is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was she

fleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England college

campus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - and

whom did she leave behind?

Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, THE LIVES OF STELLA BAIN is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery.

By: Anita Shreve
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780349123578
ISBN 10: 0349123578
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.anitashreve.co.uk

Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of seventeen novels, including Rescue, A Change in Altitude, Testimony, and The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club. She lives in Massachusetts.