A black streak has fallen on Jess Thomas. She is a single mother working two jobs. She has two children to take care of: a teenage son who is beaten by school bullies for not looking like everyone else; and a ten-year-old daughter with astonishing mathematical abilities, who must get into a math olympiad. It seems like everything is going under, and only a knight on a white horse can save the family…
Ed Nichols is a successful computer specialist—and it’s his country house that Jess’s place is cleared of from time to time. But even for this outwardly well-off man everything is going wrong. Ed sees his future only in gloomy colors, yet he knows firsthand what loneliness is—and that’s why he wants to help Jess and her children. That’s how a unusual love story begins: the story of the meeting of two lonely people…
Jojo Moyes’s books have been translated into many languages worldwide, regularly enter The New York Times bestseller list, and the leading film studios of Hollywood buy the rights to their screen adaptations.