Long ago, among strawberry fields in Maryland, a pretty, young girl was raped, and murdered.
'Blue Diary' is Alice Hoffman at her irresistible best - gripping, compassionate, lyrical, and full of disturbing surprises. This dark and utterly compelling new novel is about the shadows that lie beneath ordinary lives, about the hand that fate deals you - and what you make of it - and the ripples that carry on indefinitely from a violent act.
But the story starts on a wickedly gorgeous June day in the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts. Ethan and Jorie, the perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for thirteen years, and they're still very much in love. Ethan is handsome, reliable and popular. Jorie is dreamy and attractive. And they have a twelve-year-old son called Collie.
Then a sensitive, meddling kid makes a phone call, after which nothing can ever be the same again . . .
