Penguin
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Liza McCullen; Mike Dormer; Hannah McCullen
384 pages ISBN: 0143126482 EAN: 9780143126485 Kindle: 0143126482 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One,
in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and
moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome
change
Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and
tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves—if
not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike
Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt’s hotel.
The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and distracting eyes
could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the
family business and the bay that harbors her beloved whales, but also her
conviction that she will never love—never deserve to love—again.
For his part, Mike Dormer is expecting just another business deal—an easy job
kick-starting a resort in a small seaside town ripe for development. But he
finds that he doesn’t quite know what to make of the eccentric inhabitants of
the ramshackle Silver Bay Hotel, especially not enigmatic Liza McCullen, and
their claim to the surrounding waters. As the development begins to take on a
momentum of its own, Mike’s and Liza’s worlds collide in this hugely affecting
and irresistible tale full of Jojo Moyes’s signature humor and generosity.