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 i...

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

An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a gen...

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 int...