Jojo Moyes' spellbinding winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year Award. From the bestselling author of Me Before You.<br/>The spellbinding 2003 novel from Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Me Before You and The Girl You Left Behind. <br/><br/>In the 1950s seaside town of Merham, everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee living with the respectable Holden family, loves it, while the Holdens' daughter Celia opposes its constraints.<br/><br/>When a group of bohemians move into Arcadia, a grand Art Deco house on the seafront, Lottie and Celia are tempted into their alternative lifestyle. What ensues at the house has tragic and long-lasting consequences for all.<br/><br/>Now almost fifty years on, Arcadia and its past secrets return to life, prompting the question: can you ever leave your past behind?