Anna Quindlen is the author of five bestselling novels and has won the Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times column 'Public and Private'. She lives with her family in New York City.
A very good novel indeed - the relationship between mother and daughter is a triumph. This novel deserves to be bought, read and kept. -- Elizabeth Jane Howard One True Thing is so uncompromising in its portrait of life and death, so honest in its rendering of love and loss, that it is simply impossible to forget. -- Alice Hoffman Quindlen's extraordinary moving novel is about family responsibilities, compassion, and growing up. Daily Mail Not a word or an emotion is out of place Sunday Times ...a brave and beautiful book. The Times