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A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disasterOn a March night in 1943, on the steps of a London Tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from what seemed to be another air raid. When the devastated neighborhood demands an inquiry, the job falls to magistrate Laurence Dunne. In this beautifully crafted novel, Jessica Francis Kane paints a vivid portrait of London at war. As Dunne investigates, he finds the truth to be precarious, even damaging.

At 40, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from her job, May is inspired to reconnect with four once close friends. She knows they will never have a proper reunion, so she goes, one by one, to each of them. A student of the classics, May considers her journey a female Odyssey.

Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald’s husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third child. Out of the blue she receives a letter from two spinster sisters named Delaney, distant relations with a silver mine, who dangle the possibility of an inheritance. Jessica Francis Kane’s brilliantly imagined Fonseca fictionalizes Penelope’s real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in pursuit of this legacy, a creative and practical lifeline.

Die introvertierte Gärtnerin May Attaway steht mit vierzig an einem Scheidepunkt in ihrem Leben. Als sie unerwartet vier Wochen Urlaub bekommt, erkennt sie, dass ihr Leben nur aus Routinen besteht und sie sehr einsam ist. Zeit also, sich gewissen Fragen zu stellen: Warum hat sie sich nie der Liebe hingegeben? Was ist aus ihren Freundschaften geworden? May beschließt ihre abgeschottete Welt zu verlassen und herauszufinden, wer sie in Gesellschaft ist. Sie besucht nacheinander vier Freundinnen und macht dabei unerwartete Erfahrungen, die ihr Leben völlig verändern.