Watch your brother, says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son Vincent. Only minutes later she turns again and asks, Where's Ben?' It's the moment that every mother fears: for three-year-old Ben is gone. And no one can find him. Despite a police search that becomes a nationwide obsession, Ben has vanished, leaving behind a family that will be torn apart with anguish. Until, nine years later, the undreamed-of happens: a twelve- year-old boy knocks on their door - a boy who does not know them, but who will irrevocably twist their lives a second time
Warm, intelligent and gripping, The Deep end of the ocean is also a strikingly moving novel which show what can drive a family apart, and what can hold it together.