ISBN The Stolen Marriage book English Paperback 528 pages

'Fans of Jodi Picoult's style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes' Candis'I love Diane's writing' Cathy Kelly, author of The Year That Changed EverythingThe Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister, Pretending to Dance and The Midwifes Confession.In 1944, Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life, marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina. Tesss new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night and Tess quickly comes to realize that she is now trapped in a strange and loveless marriage.The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not?When a polio epidemic strikes the town, taking the lives of some of its children, the townspeople band together to quickly build a polio hospital. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henrys wishes and begins to work at the hospital. As Henrys actions grow more baffling and alarming by the day, can she untangle her husbands mysterious behaviour and save her own life?