
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
1989

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
238 pages
In a Puritan town, a young woman is publicly shamed for having a child out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. As she builds a quiet life with her daughter, the man's secret guilt and her wronged husband's quest for revenge eat away at the community. A novel about sin and hypocrisy.