
It’s well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.” - Publishers Weekly “Kline’s unflinching gaze and lovely prose set apart from the herd of infidelity/marital ennui novels. “Kline’s razor-sharp novel about love, marriage and obligation is a beach book only because you could zip through it anywhere.” - More magazine This is a wise and lovely book.” - Roxana Robinson, author of Cost “In BIRD IN HAND, Christina Baker Kline looks at marriage, at parents and children, pain and sorrow, and at all the questions that life asks us. Exquisitely written, powerful, and thrilling, Bird in Hand is a novel about love and friendship and betrayal, and about the secrets we tell ourselves and each other. Now she notices everything. And she begins to realize that the life she carefully constructed for herself is as tenuous as a house of cards. When she calls her husband from the police station, his accusatory tone reveals cracks in their relationship she’d never noticed were there. On the drive home from a rare evening out, Alison collides with another car running a stop sign, and-just like that-her life turns upside down.



From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about the choices we make, how they shape our lives, and how they can change them forever-includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.įour people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: Everything is about to change.
