Best-selling author Anne Siddons returns to tell the story of Nora Findlay, a young woman who turns the small town of Bazaar, Georgia, on its ear one summer in 1961. Thirteen-year-old Peyton's mother died when she was born. When her mother's younger cousin Nora comes to Bazaar, Peyton isn't pleased by the intrusion. But Nora has something about her - she laughs, she smokes and she seems to have done just about everything fun there is to do. Her presence revitalizes the entire household; even Peyton's father. But something is troubling Nora deeply. Peyton believes, it must be more than the comments made by neighbours who don't like her ways.It has to be something from her past that's bothering her. When the shocking truth comes to light, it stuns the residents of their small segregated town.
