Isabelle Broom has created an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom somehow bring their fears and strengths together after years of uncertainty and distrust to create a new, positive future. MADDIE PLEASE Sometimes the only way to rebuild is to face the past you tried to escape...On the night Fliss loses everything her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fianc exposed as a cheat she receives devastating news her estranged mother has died. They hadnt spoken in fifteen years and Fliss has stayed away for her own selfpreservation.Summoned to a dilapidated guesthouse in France for the reading of the will, Fliss is stunned to discover she has been left all her mothers possessions. But the inheritance comes at a price both literal and emotional. Sharing the house is Etienne, her mothers griefstricken, winesoaked partner, and his guarded yet magnetic nephew, Benoit.As Fliss begins restoring the guesthouse, she unearths longburied secrets about her mother, their past and the true cost of her long absence. But to move forward, cure her guilt and claim the love and happiness shes never thought she deserves, Fliss must first reckon with the hardest question of all can she forgive?A deeply poignant, richly compelling novel of complex relationships, generational trauma and our capacity to forgive, from the acclaimed author of The Summer Trip.

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 386 g; Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 28

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