‘Gorgeous’ Observer * ‘Profoundly moving’ Financial Times * 'Electrifying' Daily Mail How do you find the courage to make your own life? An unputdownable novel about first love set in 1960s London from Sunday Times bestselling Rose Tremain Marianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find true happiness with him. However a twist of fate sees Simon’s glittering future dashed, and with it, Marianne’s dreams.