Seventeen-year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York to Wilmington, Nor5 Carolina. Since then she has remained angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother decides she should spend the summer with her father.
Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centrepiece of a local church.
What unfolds is an unforgettable story about love-first love and the love between parent and children-that demonstrates othe many ways that relationships can break our hearts......and heal them.