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  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099538141
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99

One True Thing




'Simply impossible to forget' Alice Hoffman

Ellen Gulden is a successful, young New York journalist. But when her mother, Kate, is diagnosed with cancer, she leaves her life in the city to return home and care for her. In the short time they have left, the relationship between mother and daughter - tender, awkward and revealing - deepens, and Ellen is forced to confront painful truths about her adored father.

But in the weeks that follow Kate's death, events take a shocking and unexpected turn. Family emotions are laid bare as a new drama is played out, and overnight Ellen goes from devoted daughter to prime suspect, accused of the mercy killing of her 'one true thing'.

One True Thing is the devastating story of a mother and daughter, of love and loss, and of shattering choices.

  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099538141
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, non-fiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of six novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, and Every Last One. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a number one New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.

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Praise for One True Thing

Witty, profound... exhilarating

Margaret Forster

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

...a brave and beautiful book.

The Times

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

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

Imbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.

She

One True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at

Tatler

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.

Elle U.S.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.

Los Angeles Times