When Madeline Was Young (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400096992)

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer's Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes the boundaries of love.

Author: Jane Hamilton
ISBN-10: 1400096995
ISBN-13: 9781400096992
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.34w x 0.73d