WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR When journalist Ellie looks through her newspapers archives for a story she doesnt think shell find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960 written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960 Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She cant remember anything - her husband her friends who she used to be. And then when she returns home she uncovers a hidden letter and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for. Ellie and Jennifers stories of passion adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel - interspersed with real last letters.