A BRAND NEW LOVE AFFAIR FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND SMASH-HIT MOVIE THE IDEA OF YOU

LOS ANGELES, 2015
When Cecilia Chen is involved in a car accident soon after moving to LA with her husband and children, she’s stunned to recognise the other driver: Anouk Ferrand – a woman she hasn’t seen in twenty years, yet has never been able to forget.
MEXICO, 1996

Cecilia was a young photographer’s assistant; Anouk, an unknown model on the cusp of becoming a sensation. For a few brief days on the wild Mexican coast, their worlds collided with an intensity that altered the course of Cecilia’s life – though she never knew whether Anouk felt it, or even remembered her.
Now Anouk is impossible to ignore: magnetic, accomplished, and suddenly back in Cecilia’s orbit. And as the spark between them reignites into an irresistible affair, Cecilia is forced to confront everything she knew about desire, devotion and the life she has built.
Some affairs are decades in the making – and this one is about to change everything.

'An edge of your seat story about love, betrayal, secrets, and learning to inhabit your own self. I was gripped' Ellie Levenson, author of Room 706

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'Rarely does a novel move with such intoxicating confidence. A gorgeously written, utterly propulsive read' Laura Jane Williams, author of Our Stop

'Glittery and sensuous' Time Magazine

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