From the back cover: The architect Klaus Lehmann loved his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continued throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Poring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives. And alone in her rental cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an absence in her own life that may not be filled simply by going home.

Passed to my mum