From the author of The French Gardener, a sweeping, romantic story about a hotel’s summer artist-in-residence who touches lives in ways no one could imagine.
The beautiful old country house hotel by the sea in Devon has fallen on hard times after the financial crash, and owner Marina has a scheme to hire an artist-in-residence to teach painting to guests and help boost bookings. Marina gets no support from her stepdaughter Clementine, who carries a huge, ancient grudge over her parents’ long-ago breakup and cannot imagine that Marina might have her own sorrows from the past. But when Marina hires a handsome Argentine artist, Clementine begins to come out of her sulk, Marina finds a confidante, and the hotel begins to come alive. But who is he really? The artist-in-residence has his own agenda, one that will affect them all.
Spanning four decades and traveling from the Tuscan countryside to the Devonshire coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore shows the power of love to heal loss, unlock the secrets of the past, and change lives forever.
