Heartbreaking and deeply compelling, this is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets. Roberta, a lonely 34-year-old, works at The New and Old Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother's battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family's history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta's narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a 40-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of WWII.