A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub, Prospect Magazine (UK) 'The contemporary writer I recommend the most . . . It's difficult to pinpoint her genius, but . . . I'm talking about the distant echoes of regret that wake us in the night whispering that eternal question: Is that all there is? And what makes Moss so brilliant is that though her answer to that is an emphatic YES, she nonetheless writes us worlds so radiant that it doesn't even matter. ' --Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub A story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers. Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her ballerina sister, Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new