description: From Maggie O'Farrell, bestselling author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, comes a gripping novel about the way childhood fears can haunt adult lives.On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she does.At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous.They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand.Gripping, insightful and deft, this is Maggie O'Farrell's finest achievement to date.
language: English
title: The Distance Between Us
titlecomplete: The Distance Between Us
genres: Fiction, Family, British Literature, Scotland, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Love
ratings_count: 7149
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Review / Hodder Headline