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A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of French Braid

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.

So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son s ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it s never too late to choose your own path.

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