Ripeness - by Sarah Moss (Hardcover) by Moss, Sarah

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her ballerina sister, Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new energy, Edith has fashioned a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. Then her best frie