Rachel knows she’s not feeling the way she should about her new baby-the way she’d imagined she would-but no one wants to talk about it. Desperate and afraid she’ll do something terrible, she makes a radical decision: to leave the country in search of her father, who left when she was a child and from whose desertion Rachel’s never recovered. Will she find him? Will she find answers? Will answers lead her back to baby Lola and her bereft husband?

First published in 2013, What Was Left was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal in 2014.