The Sunday Times Bestseller

Lovely, lovely, lovely Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe MARIAN KEYES

Powerful and profound Guardian

Another sure-fire hit Daily Mail

Funny, melancholy, acutely observant Sunday Express

Cannon is so attuned to other peoples stories a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are Guardian

84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought theyd laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light