FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian
‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times
‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope Lively
Violet is 38.
The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’.
But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resilience and acts of quiet rebellion. And when whispers of another world war surface, she must live with a secret that could change everything…
- ISBN13 9780008153816
- Publish Date 5 September 2019
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint The Borough Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk