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''A fascinating, beautiful, heartwarming novel. It kept me gripped from the very first chapter'' -- BETH O''LEARY
In Second World War Bath, young, na- wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the couple''s home is bombed, and Will awakes from the blast to find himself alone.
No one has heard of Elsa Klein. They say she never existed.
Seventy years later, social worker Laura is battling her way out of depression and off medication. Her new case is a strange, isolated old man whose house hasn''t changed since the war. A man who insists his fianc-anished many, many years before. Everyone thinks he''s suffering dementia. But Laura begins to suspect otherwise . . .
From Keith Stuart, author of the much-loved Richard &
