1944. Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared. She is not alone, as all the women in the isolated Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained absence they regroup as an all-female community and wait, hoping for news. Paperback , 368 pages Published July 1st 2011 by Faber & Faber (first published February 10th 2007)