The daughter of the town physician in a WWII-era South African village, Lettie Louw, pursuing her own dreams of a career in medicine in Johannesburg, meets and marries Marco Romanelli, an Italian immigrant, and as they raise a family in the midst of racial and political tensions, she is thrown together with her first love—the man she has never been able to forget. Original From the bestselling author of The Girl From the Train, comes another compelling coming of age story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation in WWII-era South Africa.
