Little Bee by Chris Cleave

266 pages
4 hours 26 minutes

from the back cover:

We don't want to tell you what happens in this book.  It is truly a special story and we don't want to spoil it.  Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it, so we will just say this:  This is the story of two women.  Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face.  Two years later, they meet again -- and the story starts from there. . .