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...
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