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Ballantine Books
May 2016
On Sale: May 17, 2016
352 pages
ISBN: 0345547896
EAN: 9780345547897
Kindle: B014BQZAQM
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Historical
The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns
with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of
proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war. Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother’s bringing wounded
creatures to their idyllic château in the French
countryside, where healing comes naturally amid the lush
wildflowers and crumbling stone walls. Yet his
maman’s newest project is the most surprising: a
fifteen-year-old Scottish girl grieving over her parents’
fate. A curious child with an artistic soul, Clare Ross
finds solace in her connection to Luc, and she in turn
inspires him in ways he never thought possible. Then, just
as suddenly as Clare arrives, she is gone, whisked away by
her grandfather to the farthest reaches of the globe.
Devastated by her departure, Luc begins to write letters to
Clare—and, even as she moves from Portugal to Africa and
beyond, the memory of the summer they shared keeps her
grounded.
Years later, in the wake of World
War I, Clare, now an artist, returns to France to help
create facial prostheses for wounded soldiers. One of the
wary veterans who comes to the studio seems familiar, and as
his mask takes shape beneath her fingers, she recognizes
Luc. But is this soldier, made bitter by battle and
betrayal, the same boy who once wrote her wistful letters
from Paris? After war and so many years apart, can Clare and
Luc recapture how they felt at the edge of that long-ago
summer?
Bringing to life two unforgettable
characters and the rich historical period they inhabit,
Jessica Brockmole shows how love and forgiveness can redeem us.
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