French gift. Kirsty Manning. 2021.

Fresnes Prison, 1940. 

Margo Bisset, a former maid from the Riviera, finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter, Josephine Morant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come.

Present-day Paris.

Evie Black lives above her botanical bookshop with her teenage son, Hugo. Nursing a broken heart, Evie receives an unexpected letter; she clutches at an opportunity to spend a magical summer with her son on the Côte d’Azur.

It’s here on the Riviera, that the past envelops them and Evie attempts to unravel the official story of a famous novelist. If she succeeds, a murder from a lifetime ago may be solved.