From the world’s bestselling author comes one woman’s narrative traversing thirty years between two mysterious deaths.

Dolores Claiborne’s elderly employer dies suddenly, apparently from falling down a flight of stairs. This tragedy sparks memories of the day Dolores’s husband died . . . the day of the total eclipse. Suspected by police and townspeople alike, she delivers a story of a disintegrating marriage, and the breaking point reached by a docile woman.