When Anna Graham finds diamond earrings in her husband’s drawer the day before Valentine’s Day, she knows they’re not for her – her ears aren’t even pierced. Gray is having an affair – but before she can confront him about his betrayal, he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis that shatters their family.

As Gray lies dying in their Damask Square home, Anna meets Laurel – the nurse who stole her husband’s heart. Despite her rage, Anna finds herself sharing Gray’s final days with this other woman, both desperate to ease his suffering while drowning in their own grief.

But hidden in their loft, Anna discovers traces of a stranger – a boy who was a gifted pianist, who had a different life before he became her husband. As she struggles to hold herself together for her teenage children, Anna realises everything she believed about Gray was built on carefully constructed lies.

Can two women who loved the same man find a way to heal – and help each other discover who Gray really was?

My Thoughts:

Anna’s husband Gray has been cheating on her, she does not know for how long but when she finds a gift in his drawer that is her confirmation. When the whole family find out that Gray is terminally ill, Anna does her best to be there for the family but what she does not realise that Gary wants his mistress to visit him at home as he can no longer leave the house. It is a lot for Anna to come to terms with and I don’t think I would be brave enough to let it happen, but it was an eye opener of a story and one I felt mentally drained after reading. I have to admit I did get a little bored towards the end but overall it was a good read. I thought it would leave me in tears but it did not as it was a different kind of sad.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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