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DATE OF RELEASE: 19 MAR 2026
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2025
‘I’ll be thinking about it for ever’ Barbara Kingsolver
‘A gorgeously written story…a must-read’ Jennie Godfrey
‘Powerful and beautifully written… Lynch is a huge new talent in fiction' Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month
‘I was caught up from the first page and completely taken aback by this story. I loved it’ Clare Chambers
A mother following her heart. A father with the law on his side.
A child caught in the middle. 1982 Dawn is a young wife and mother hemmed in by village life. Then Hazel appears like a torch in the dark.
Their attraction is instant and suddenly Dawn’s world is more joyful, and more complicated, than she ever expected. 2022 Maggie has always lived with an absence where her mother should be. Her father never speaks of her and it feels impossible to ask.
Then an official letter arrives with news from the past, and Maggie must face a truth far bigger than just her family’s secret.
Paperback, Publication: 19 Mar 2026, Vintage
ISBN: 9781529942354
Extent: 224 pages
