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WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA''S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR ''I loved this book'' BONNIE GARMUS ''A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community'' LOUISE KENNEDY ''I can''t recommend this one highly enough '' HARLAN COBEN ''THIS is his best book'' ANN PATCHETT In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and ''30s. In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark