num_pages: 276
description: At the close of World War One, Amanda Starkey leaves the city, and travels to her family's farm in rural Wisconsin to recover from a traumatic love affair. Instead, she is caught up in a tragedy that will take her beloved sister's life, and leave Amanda to raise her niece Ruth. What happened that terrible night when Mattie died? Why does Ruth say she can remember drowning? For years the consequences of the tragedy reverberate; the truth, when it is revealed, is both dramatic and extraordinarily moving.
language: English
title: Drowning Ruth
titlecomplete: Drowning Ruth
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Book Club, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 82747
places: Wisconsin
publisher: Headline