The description on the cover only gives a brief overview. The Divide is about a family which split due to the unhappiness of the father, Ben Cooper. This affects the whole family and the book starts with the finding of his daughter, Abbie Cooper dead. She has left a pattern of destruction behind which is revealed throughout the book.

Definitely worth reading.

Ann Stoudt (USA: HI) (2023/03/02):
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of a loving family so tragically astray? In a journey of discovery and redemption, from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, The Divide delves into the dynamics of a fractured family and their struggle with the pain of lost happiness. Electrifying and heartbreaking, master storyteller Nicholas Evans's new novel delivers an extraordinary tale about the timeless power of nature, and about the yearnings, hopes, and disillusionments that connect-and separate -all men and women.