Author: Chevalier, Tracy

Hampshire

Published on 29 October 2020 by Harpercollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 400 pages
129 x 196 x 35 | 240g

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 fianc 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 everything