Books by Jane Hamilton

Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
After twelve years of marriage, Laura Rider decides to stop sleeping with her husband Charlie and wr...

Disobedience (2000)
Chicago private school student Henry stumbles onto the e-mail account he set up for his mother and i...

A Map of the World (1995)
While under the care of Alice Goodwin, a neighbor's child drowns in the Goodwins' pond, a devastatin...

When Madeline was Young (2006)
When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is...

The Book of Ruth (1988)
Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her li...