From the internationally bestselling author of "Lessons in Laughing Out Loud" comes a moving and heartwarming novel about a woman who escapes an abusive relationship and flees with her young daughter in search of a kind stranger she met many years earlier.
FIRST YOU LOSE YOUR WAY. THEN YOU FIND YOURSELF.
When Rose Pritchard flees her abusive husband in the middle of the night, there s only one place she can think of going. Millthwaite is a remote village deep in the Lake District, hundreds of miles from her unhappy home. It s also Rose s only link to Frasier McCleod. They met just once, long ago, but his kindness sparked a connection that has sustained her ever since.
Rose checks in to a local B&B with her young daughter, earning the scrutiny of the nosy landlady and the attention of her charming musician son. After the tumult of Rose s marriage, the beauty of the surrounding countryside restores her hope. Here she will seize a chance to reconnect with her estranged father, to watch her anxious daughter grow in confidence, and to discover whether she s been chasing a foolish fantasy in loving a man she hardly knows or following her heart s call.
Candid, moving, and unflinchingly honest, this is a powerful story of heartache and new beginnings, friendship and family. Rowan Coleman s touching and ultimately triumphant novel is a reminder that it s not what you leave behind that defines you but what you re running toward."