FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian'Deeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cry' The Times'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope Lively Violet is 39.She lost her fiancé in the Great War.She is considered a 'surplus woman'.But Violet is also fiercely independent, intelligent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life - an endeavour which will require courage, resilience and a series of quiet rebellions...
