Hidden palace. Dinah Jefferies. 2022.

1925. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for the bohemian clubs deep in the ancient winding streets of Malta, a tiny island in the Mediterranean.

1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin must make a new life. But her estranged mother has a desperate request: to find her sister who went missing years before.

Betrayals and secrets, lies and silence sit between the generations. A faded last letter from Rosalie is Florence's only clue, the war an immovable barrier  and time is running out.