"Have you ever thought, Oh, God, what if I'd missed this book? It was my thought after turning the final page of The Falconer, with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. I felt absolutely replete; it's a stunning first novel."

The book has been translated into 17 foreign languages, as well as being published in England (both hardcover and paperback), where it was chosen as a Dillon's Debutante.

It has also:

• Made the bestseller list in Israel
• Been choosen as a Book of the Month Club Alternate
• Been published as a Reader's Digest Condensed Book (in five languages)
• Been produced as an Audio Book by Dove Audio, read by Susan Anspach

The Book

For all of her thirty-seven years India Blake has lived a life of difficulty and loneliness: first an alcoholic mother whose needs ate up her youth, then an empty marriage with a man who couldn't be faithful.

Only after being told she had, at most, a few months left to live, did she meet Rhodri MacNeal, the falconer. Has some perverse destiny kept her from finding love until her time is nearly up? Or did this passion come too late because of some flaw within herself?

India is afraid she'll die before she learns to understand her life. And she must know: Was her brief, intense time with the falconer merely meant to tease her with a taste of what she'd always missed, or had she, by some miracle, found a love to last forever?

As she lies wakeful on her last night, the heroine unflinchingly examines her history and relives the love that seemed to lift her above it, searching for an explanation that will let her face death without bitterness.

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