The Life She Almost Lived: A Bellweather Bay Novel

Amara Cole has spent most of her life being the person everyone can rely on. At fifty-six, with her twenty-nine-year marriage quietly coming apart and her children building lives of their own, she is no longer sure who she is when nobody needs rescuing. Then Aunt Celestine leaves her Sea Glass Cottage in the windswept seaside town of Bellweather Bay-and a box of photographs and letters that unsettles everything Amara thought she knew about the summer of 1991. At the centre of the mystery is Daniel Hart, the young man Amara once planned to leave England with, and the truth about why he disappeared from her life. But the past is not the only thing waiting for her in Bellweather Bay. There is a cottage that feels increasingly like home, a family learning to speak more honestly, and Theo Bennett, a widowed architect who asks nothing of Amara except that she decide what she wants. Warm, witty and deeply emotional, The Life She Almost Lived is a story about the roads not taken, the families we forgive without forgetting, and the liberating discovery that it is never too late to become the author of your own life.