“Mitchard returns with another heartbreaker.”
—Library Journal
“Gripping. … Mitchard deftly weaves together domestic drama with taut suspense as she builds to a heart-stopping climax.”
—Booklist
“A troubled protagonist, beset by disaster and malefaction, is touched by magic.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Mitchard’s latest novel explores the fascinating question of those who have extraordinary gifts, what responsibility comes with those gifts, and where the line of morality falls between those poles. A thoughtful, sweeping read.”
—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time.
“This book will open your mind and heart in equal measure.”
—Paula McClain, author, The Paris Wife
“With grand landscapes, deep emotions, harrowing adventure and genuine characters who aren’t characters at all but people about whom we come to care so very much, Two if by Sea is a powerful blockbuster of the first order. There is magic here, both in terms of the vast story told, and in Ms. Mitchard’s always-beautiful writing. This is a riveting book, a gift to readers everywhere who want to sink into a novel of history, and love, and grace, and magic.”
—Bret Lott, New York Times bestselling author of Jewel
“Jacquelyn Mitchard has done it again. TWO IF BY SEA is a riveting story of loss, love and redemption, driven by the tension between the worst of us and the best of us. Both supernatural and reality-bound, this tantalizing thriller won’t let you go. Kudos to Mitchard for such an insightful and compelling read.”
—B A Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger
“A day after losing his wife and unborn child in a tsunami in Australia, American Frank Mercy rescues a mysterious young boy from the floodwaters. What happens next offers Mercy the opportunity to heal his new wounds while opening old ones. This sprawling family saga is a lot of things – a finely drawn character study, a transcontinental thriller, a portrait of grief and loss – but, most importantly, it is a very, very good book. Although it brings to mind the work of writers like Gail Godwin and Richard Flanagan, this is the kind of novel that only Jacquelyn Mitchard can write: a literary page-turner that is as propulsive as it resonant, as hard to define as it is to put down.”
—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy