Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi
travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son,
and Charlotte, her sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of
Puyloubier in the south of France, to renovate her family's
crumbling stone cottage.
There, Charlotte confesses a shocking secret, and Heidi learns the
truth about her mother's lost summer' when Heidi was a child. As
three generations collide with one another, with the neighbour who
seems to know all of their family skeletons, and with an enigmatic
Frenchman, Heidi, Charlotte, and Abbot journey through love, loss
and healing amid the vineyards, warm winds and delicious food of Provence.
Bridget Asher is the pen-name of poet, essayist, children's author
and bestselling novelist Julianna Baggott. She has wanted to be a
writer since the age of ten, and has to date had over a dozen novels
published, with her work translated into thirty-nine languages. A
professor at Florida State University, she has also co-founded a
non-profit organization with her husband to aid literacy among
underprivileged children. She lives with her husband and four children
on the Florida panhandle, but is always happy to do research in Provence.
