num_pages: 384
description: Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and won the Somerset Maugham Award.On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. 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.
language: English
title: The Distance Between Us
titlecomplete: The Distance Between Us
genres: British Literature, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Love, Scotland, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 7145
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Headline Review