From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Me Before You and the new 2023 novel Someone Else's
Shoes. When twenty-one year old Joy meets handsome naval officer Edward at an ex-pat party in
1950s Hong Kong the last thing she expects is to fall in love. Quickly wedded she leaves to
travel the world with her new husband. But she soon discovers that married life isn't all that
it seems . . . In 1980 Joy's young daughter Kate mysteriously flees the family home. Fifteen
years later Kate's own daughter Sabine leaves London in search of grandparents she has never
known. When the family is finally reunited hidden tensions come to the surface uncovering a
dark secret which has been deeply buried for years . . .
