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The Great War changed everything for Lady Harriet Cunningham. Instead of being presented at eighteen, she trained to be a nurse and shared forbidden kisses with her colleagues. But now in 1923, at the age of twenty-four, Harriet is facing spinsterhood. It's not such a ghastly prospect to her, but as the daughter of the Earl of Creoch, there's a certain expectation that she must meet. So, in a last attempt to find a match for their daughter to see her safe and secure, they send her to her aunt and uncle in New York.

In una Francia occupata dai nazisti, Hortensia, bella e viziata, vive insoddisfatta il suo matrimonio con Daniel Mayer, noto esperto d'arte, dal carattere cinico e ambizioso. Quando il dramma che sconvolge l'Europa li costringe alla fuga, durante il viaggio conosce il giovane Jean Louis, un collaboratore di Daniel, e tra loro nasce un breve amore che annulla la ragione e sospende il tempo, fin quasi a far loro dimenticare la guerra in corso.

When Alina's son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it's the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina's neatly ordered life. With the sudden appearance of Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she's left reeling.