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 cravesβif not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her auntβs 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 loveβnever deserve to loveβagain.
For his part, Mike Dormer is expecting just another business dealβan easy job kick-starting a resort in a small seaside town ripe for development. But he finds that he doesnβt 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, Mikeβs and Lizaβs worlds collide in this hugely affecting and irresistible tale full of Jojo Moyesβs signature humor and generosity.
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