THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN

Penguin Audiobooks, New York, 1999.  ISBN 0-14-086887-9.  2 audio cassette tapes with an approx. playing time of 3 hours, still in manufacturer’s shrink wrap.  Read by Dana Ivey.  ‘It happened in a flash.  One minute Beth Cappadora was the happily married mother of three children.  The next minute, one of them, her favorite child, three-year-old Ben, was missing.  Was he kidnapped?  No one knew, and as minutes lengthened into hours, days, weeks, months, years, even the woman police officer obsessed with the case gave up hope.  So began the slow-motion nightmare for Beth, for her family, for everyone involved in the ultimate testing of the ties that bind people together and the wounds that tear them apart.  But suddenly something so unexpected happens, it changes everything.  This stunning novel plumbs the depths of one family’s pain and hope, evoking love’s risks and rewards.’ (from rear box)