Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her familyhome on the west coast of France, where she would be joined by her exotic,hopelessly glamorous cousins and life as she knew it would begin under thebenevolent eye of her grandmother Mimi.It was a heady existence of illicitdrinking, stolen kisses and the bittersweet pains of first love. But nowFlorence is living completely alone with her new baby.Haunted bynightmares, she cannot open the letters from her grandmother accumulatingon her mantelpiece.What devastating truth do these letters hold?Why hasFlorence turned her back on her past? And will she and Mimi ever be ableto escape the guilt that is tearing them apart and has shaken their familyto its very core?