'Evocative, sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark' DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
'A beautifully observed and brilliantly constructed page-turner . . . It has everything - love, loss, fury, forgiveness - and I was absolutely immersed from page one' Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes
Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help think they were right.
She was seventeen when she'd first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.
It was Frank who picked up the pieces. Together they'd built a home very different from the one she'd imagi
