Forgive Me (22 page)

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Sleep Toward Heaven

How to Be Lost

Praise for

Forgive Me

“Compulsively readable…a fascinating journey to salvation.”

––The Denver Post

“Insightful…Ward excels…in her deft examinations of nuanced human relationships.”

––San Francisco Chronicle

“Wonderfully crafted…Not only is this novel a literary gem, it’s as addictive as any nail-biting thriller.”

––Glamour
(U.K.)

“Amanda Eyre Ward tells a compelling story in
Forgive Me
—full of hard truths, and no easy answers. This is a book readers will fly through—but also one that will linger and haunt.”

—D
ANI
S
HAPIRO
, author of
Family History

“With staccato bursts of vivid writing and dialogue…Ward offers the reader a glimpse into subjects both foreign and familiar and maintains interest to the end.”

––The Providence Journal

“[Ward] beautifully spans the physical and social divide between Cape Town, in the waning days of apartheid, and Cape Cod [and] avoids glib answers, preferring to question the differences between perpetrators and victims—and ask who deserves to be forgiven.”

––Texas Monthly

“A hard-bitten U.S. correspondent revisits the traumas of South Africa’s apartheid era…. A profound, engrossing read.”

––Sainsbury’s Magazine
(U.K.)

“Powerful…an acute, sharp-angled love story with a rare sense of history.”

––Kirkus Reviews

“Upon finishing Ward’s tantalizingly spare yet precisely powerful novel, readers will want to start all over again.”

––Booklist

Forgive Me
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

2008 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2007 by Amanda Eyre Ward

Reading group guide copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2007.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ward, Amanda Eyre.

Forgive me : a novel / by Amanda Eyre Ward.

p. cm.

1. Women journalists—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.A725F67 2007

813'.6—dc22                            2006050436

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eISBN: 978-0-345-50491-3

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