From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Millers singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mothers death, is diagnosed, at nineteen, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking, she discovers a nearly lost world of youth and possibility, and meets the doomed young man who will become her lover.Vermont, the present. On the heels of a divorce, Catherine Hubbard, Georgias granddaughter, takes up residence in Georgias old house. Sorting through her own affairs, Cath stumbles upon the true story of Georgias life and marriage, and of the misunderstanding upon which she built a lasting love.
