<p><b>A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of <i>The Woman in Black.</i></b><br> Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for reading gets her into university she feels sure the world is waiting for her.<br><br>But then she makes a mistake ¿ the kind any one of us could make ¿ and faces an impossible choice.<br><br><b>''A shattering coming-of-age story'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>