Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916,an Americanwoman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gasgangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss ofmemory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw,and her name is Stella Bain.A stateless woman in a lawlesscountry, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Sufferingan agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way toLondon. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist,is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was shefleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England collegecampus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - andwhom did she leave behind?Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, The Lives of Stella Bain is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery.