Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmers wife, wakes to find her husband has gone. She is not alone, as all the other women in the Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to discover their husbands have disappeared also. With this sudden and unexplained absence, the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community. Paperback , 357 pages Published March 6th 2008 by Faber & Faber (first published February 10th 2007)