WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022 'A mesmerising disquieting tale of family estrangement .
Unforgettable' OBSERVER 'A striking and memorable novel' MEG WOLITZER 'A stone-cold masterwork
of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath' NEW YORK TIMES 'Hila Blum
is my new favourite writer' LOUISE KENNEDY ------------------------------------------- What
damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from her home a woman stands on a
dark street peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of
her only daughter the grandchildren she's never met. At the centre of this mesmerising story
is the woman's quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss - a mother besotted
with her only child - arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth
in time she unravels memories and long-buried feelings retracing the infinite acts of
parental care each so mundane and apparently benign that together may have undermined what
she most treasured. With exquisite psychological precision Blum traces the seemingly
insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life where it's possible to cross the line
between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it - and it's uncertain whether or
how we can find our way back. ------------------------------------------- 'When I read this
book I felt ... that a new and wonderful occurrence has transpired in Israeli literature' Neri
Livne Haaretz
