The Last Letter on Willow Street

Nora has a city career she loves and a house on Willow Street she means to sell. Coming home to clear her grandmother's rooms should be a practical task: sort the cupboards, call an agent, catch the train back. Then a recipe tin falls from a shelf, and a letter addressed to her changes the story she has told herself for seven years.

Next door, Elliot is still repairing things. The young man who failed to meet her at the bridge has become someone she no longer entirely knows. As they work through the house, they uncover what happened that summer, including a well-meant intervention neither of them had a chance to question. But an explanation cannot return the years they lost, and affection cannot decide where Nora should live.

Among damp wallpaper, early trains and a tree that refuses to fit an estate agent's idea of a view, two adults begin a harder conversation than the one they avoided. A quiet romance about imperfect people, complicated grief and making room for love without giving up the life you chose.