Allegra Goodman

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in a deeply moving novel of love, faith and survival, for listeners of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist and Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See

Sandy Glass, a charismatic oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a pure, exacting scientist, are codirectors of a lab dedicated to cancer research and desperately in need of a grant....

Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts....

Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts....