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From the author of Adelaide comes a bittersweet, deeply felt story that follows the start and unraveling of a seemingly unbreakable bond between two young women. Lina and June’s friendship shouldn’t make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party...

For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the blue: this charming Englishman was The One she wasn’t even looking for. Does he respond to texts? Honor his commitments? Make advance plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all. But when he shines his light on her, the world makes sense, and Adelaide is convinced that, in his heart, he’s fallen just as deeply as she has. Then, when Rory is rocked by an unexpected tragedy, Adelaide does everything in her power to hold him together.

When over seventy-five pieces of rare and intriguing seventeenth and eighteenth century Delftware are rediscovered in an historic Manhattan townhouse, decorative art advisor and writer Genevieve Wheeler Brown quickly recognizes that, together, these pieces tell an amazing story. What begins as a curatorial exercise quickly evolves not only into an exploration of this colorful, expressive, and sometimes even humorous decorative art, coveted for hundreds of years, but also an unexpected uncovering of forceful female lives yet untold.

Adelaide Williams lebt den Traum der tausend Möglichkeiten: Sie macht die Londoner Pubszene unsicher, versucht ihren Master abzuschließen und einen Job zu ergattern, der nicht aus unterbezahlten Überstunden im PR-Bereich besteht. Und sie verliebt sich. In den umwerfenden Rory Hughes, immer einen Schritt außer Reichweite. Aber Adelaide weiß: Wenn sie sich ein wenig mehr Mühe gibt, ihn noch etwas mehr liebt, wird er ihre kleinen Fehler schon vergessen. Da stirbt Rorys Exfreundin Nathalie, Times-Journalistin, Perfektion in Person.