THE PRIZE-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Every sentence in this quiet, beautiful novel carries a great freight of emotion. Hila Blum is my new favourite writer LOUISE KENNEDY, bestselling author of Trespasses What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from her home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of her only daughter, the grandchildren she s never met.

At the center of this brilliant novel is a small family mother, daughter, and father, in this order, a family whose mistakes, made in the name of love, accumulate gradually to create an unforgettable psychological drama. With clarity and sharpness, Hila Blum examines the delicate crevices of a mother s love for her daughter, those that we want to see and those that we would rather deny. Blum draws an intimate road map which exposes the limits of our capacity to direct and to control the fate of our children.

'When I read this book, I felt . . .

that a new and wonderful occurrence has transpired in Israeli literature' Neri Livne, Haaretz

With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant mis