A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness.

Florrie Butterfieldeighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful dispositionbelieves there can’t be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummers evening, theres an accident at Babbington Hallthe adult residence where she livesso shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she, in fact, living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life, with all its passions and regrets; she must confront her own bloody secretand, at last, forgive herself. Above all, Florrie learns, through the help of her new friend, Stanhope, that youre never too old to have the life youve always dreamed of. When it comes to love, its never too late.

Readers of moving fiction about late-in-life second chances such as Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Rachel Joyces The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will love this un-putdownable book.