Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008, and winner of the Prix Femina 2006. No child can know the secrets of the past...

Nancy Huston is a brilliant, lyrical, unforgettable writer.' Janette Turner Hospital

Narrated by four children from different generations of the same family, Fault Lines is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Taking us from California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, its stories unwind back through the years until, reaching the Holocaust, the devastating secret at the heart of the family's history is finally revealed. Fault Lines is a riveting and poignant novel in which love, music and faith rage against the spectre of evil. Domestic in focus, epic in scope, and with powerfully drawn characters, it is a novel that is hard to put down.

'Fault Lines is haunted by the upheavals of the twentieth century. A brilliant, deeply moving novel.' Le Monde

'Explosive in its control and ambition.' Le Figaro