'A blockbuster...a rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel. Readers will find this compelling and heartbreaking story -- sure to be compared to The Good Mother -- impossible to put down.' Publishers Weekly 'Watch your brother,' says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son Vincent. Only minutes later she turns again and asks, 'Where's Ben?' It's the moment that every mother fears: for three-year-old Ben is gone. Despite a nationwide police search, no one can find him. Until, nine years later, a twelve-year-old boy knocks on their door -- a boy who does not know them, but who will irrevocably twist their lives a second time...
- ISBN10 0451186923
- ISBN13 9780451186928
- Publish Date 1 July 1997 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc
- Edition Open market ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English