A Single ThreadFROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'Bittersweet ? dazzling' Guardian 'Deeply pleasurable ? the ending made me cry' The Times 'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope Lively

a witty and erudite re-evaluation of Dr Johnson's enduring importance and relevance

Today we still depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships

Ruby Wax tries to come up with some answers to that niggling question about who we are

Esther Rutter - who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk

determined to find answers to her sister's sudden death at the hands of her husband

determined he won't live to pass on the information

The Dunbar brothers are living - fighting

Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia

Thulin and Hess begin to suspect that there's a connection between the previously closed Hartung case and the new recent victims

Filled with titanic personalities and legendary authors

and gives these women back their stories

crushed Carpool Karaoke