Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

<p><b>A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, <i>Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase</i> is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best.</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family.<br />  <br /> The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, <i>Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase</i> is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.<br /> <b> </b></p><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>