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En un derrumbe parcial en la nueva carretera que comunicará Tungus con Skardu (Pakistán) se descubre una caverna centenaria. En su interior encuentran vestigios del pasado: utensilios de labranza, distintas alforjas repletas de semillas y un decrépito arcón de madera que contiene varios códices en perfecto estado, sorprendentemente, escritos por una mujer.

As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She’s fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Amid the tedium of sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a man she’s attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem impossible.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

Marie Weberin sisäpiika Greta Mikontytär pääsee hattumaakari Anna Fallinin apulaiseksi entisen emännän myytyä kauppahuoneensa ja muutettua Tukholmaan. Gretasta kehkeytyykin paitsi näppärä ompelija myös erinomainen muotisuunnittelija, joka vetää salongin täyteen porilaisrouvia. Valitettavasti sinne änkeää myös Tyskilästä Forssiksi muuttuneen kauppahuoneen uusi omistaja, leskimies Arvid Grönfors, joka on päättänyt saada Gretan uudeksi rouvakseen vaikka väkisin.