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From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.

Sadie’s life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants or deserves.

But now her father, the vital, elusive man who spent his life creating perfumes for other women, is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood. In pursuing his separate life, Sadie’s father ignored her, subjecting her to a succession of ‘aunties’, leaving her loveless and alone.

As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down, and she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of those fleeting women from her father’s past sets off a chain of events that even Sadie cannot control…