A young woman is in jail accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She says she didn't do it. Ellen Gulden is a young, successful New York journalist. When her mother gets cancer, her father, a university professor, insists she come home. As she looks after her mother, their relationship - tender, awkward and revealing - deepens and Ellen is forced to confront painful truths about her adored father. But as Kate lies dying, and in the weeks that follow her death, events take a shocking and unexpected turn. Family emotions are laid bare as a new drama is played out: between Ellen and her brothers, between Ellen and her father, and in court.
- ISBN10 044022103X
- ISBN13 9780440221036
- Publish Date 23 January 1999 (first published 30 August 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Del Rey Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 387
- Language English