Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here - deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy - lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.

Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone.

"A tale of conflicted love . . . A superbly written, deeply moving modern love story" - * Independent *

"One of the most impressive novelists of her generation" - * The Times *

"Anam's prose is glowing and graceful" - * Guardian *

"Exquisite *****" - * Daily Telegraph *

"Breathtaking . . . Zubaida's journey of self-discovery [has] a real sense of scale" - * Sunday Herald *

"The Bones of Grace has at its heart not war but the shattering effects of conflicted love . . . Zubaida's choice between love and duty is reminiscent of Anna Karenina" - * Financial Times *

"Restrained and powerful" - * Observer *

"Seemingly disparate stories slowly coming together one by one, until the moment a last piece clicks sweetly into place to give us the revelation of a perfect, satisfying whole" - * Spectator *