How far will they go to find their story?
When Alexis meets Maeve ? a reclusive woman in her eighties? they feel an unexpected and beautiful kinship. Alexis is embracing nomad life after burning out as a big-shot editor. And Maeve is mourning her glory days as a bestselling author.
Their friendship inspires Maeve to write again. Her last novel pours out of her – a story of love and heartbreak, centred around a bookshop in 1950s Paris. But the line between fact and fiction is as fine as a whisper, and the novel unfurls a long-buried mystery, one that has haunted Maeve?s existence.

And will reverberate into the lives of both women, decades later?