A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025
A PRIMA BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

'A beautifully imagined family saga’
NEW YORK TIMES

'Chapters that push your tear ducts to the limits'
SCOTSMAN

'A moving multigenerational tale'
WASHINGTON POST

'Remarkable . . . Lingers long after the final page'
ABI DARÉ

'A novelist to watch'
INDEPENDENT

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‘Forget the wedding. Forget the shooting’

The trouble is Ebby Freeman can never forget.
Not the ex-fiancé who walked out on their wedding day.
Not the death of her brother when she was a kid.
Not the family whose expectations she must carry alone.

Ebby’s life and heartbreak have been so terribly public that now all she wants to do is hide. But fleeing her Connecticut home for France doesn’t stop her running into her ex and his new girlfriend.

Stuck with the last people she wants to see, Ebby faces a choice. Keep trying to forget the pain of the past, even though no one will let her...

Or find her own way of remembering?

Praise for Charmaine Wilkerson:

'Completely blew me away' Red

'Unputdownable. Astonishing. Twists and turns so shocking they will leave your head spinning and your heart aching' Grazia

'Beautiful, deeply resonant . . . A story that is as meaningful as it is delicious' Taylor Jenkins Reid