A very fine first printing, clean and tight. Strong binding. Awards Women's Prize for Fiction (Shortlist – 2012) Audie Award (Winner – Literary Fiction & Classics – 2012) The Morning News Tournament of Books (Short List – 2012) Salon Book Award (Fiction – 2011) Wellcome Trust Book Prize (Shortlist – 2011) Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Top 10 – Fiction – 2011) Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Fiction: The Top 25 – 2011) Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Fiction – 2011) New York Times bestseller (Fiction – 2011) Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Best Books (2011) Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan's 10 Favorite Books of the Year (2011) King County Library System Best Books (Fiction Books – 2011) Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (Fiction, 3) San Diego Public Library Recommended Books (2021) —Librarything