βTender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel about familial love and stoicism in the face of heartbreak.ββCarys Bray, award-winning author of The Museum of You
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Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing 80, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambeβs 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognize the tenderness and heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. Vincent is the last person Maeve wants to see. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. The nightingale to Maeveβs crow, the dawn to Maeveβs dusk, Edie would have set her sights on the stageβall things being equal. But, from birth, things never were. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be lovedβa lesson that her exuberant yet inexplicable twin may have been trying to teach her all along.
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Stylist MagazineΒ Top βBooks to Read on a Staycationβ
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βFunny, heartbreaking and truly remarkable.ββSusan Barker,Β New York TimesΒ bestselling author
βI found the novel most poignant and tender in its depiction of disability, without a whiff of sentimentality . . . it crept under my skill and will stay there for a long time.ββEmma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author ofΒ Grace Williams Says It Loud
βAmazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving . . . an important and very beautiful book.ββEdward Hogan, Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author ofΒ BlackmoorΒ
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βFresh, poignant and unlike anything else.ββJill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Crime WriterΒ