Dimensions
111 x 178 x 42mm
In a small town in New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the mutilated body of a newborn girl floating in the Sabbathday River. The community makes its own accusations. Heather Pratt, a young single mother infamous for her affair with a married man, must be the prime suspect. Heather denies stabbing the baby, but when the District Attorney threatens to put her young daughter into foster care, she confesses and is charged with murder. Naomi finds the body of a still-born infant on Heather's property. Heather is charged with double murder. Naomi, herself an outcast in the insular world of this New England town, engages the help of Judith Friedman, a friend and a lawyer, to defend Heather. When the truth finally comes to light, Naomi must confront how little she has understood her town, her friend and herself.
