From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a story that asks what would you risk for a shot at happiness?1984. Bessie is a confident sixteenyearold girl with the world at her feet, dreaming of what life will bring and what shell bring to this life. Then everything comes crashing down. Her bright and trusting smile is lost, banished by shameand a secret shell carry with her for the rest of her life.2021. The last thirtyseven years have not been easy for Bess. At fiftythree she is visibly weary, and her marriage to Mario is in tatters. Watching her son in newlywed blissthe hope, the trust, the joyBess knows it is time to face her own demons, and try to save her relationship. But shell have to throw off the burden of shame if she is to honour that sixteenyearold girl whose dreams lie frozen in time.Can Bess face her past, finally come clean to Mario, and claim the love she has longed to fully experience all these years?

Binding: Paperback;318 pages; Publisher: Amazon Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 408 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 24

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