Sheltering Rain

When twenty-one-year-old Joy meets handsome naval officer Edward at an ex-pat party in 1950 os Hong Kong, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. Quickly wedded, she leaves to travel the world with her new husband. But she soon discovers that married life isn't all that it seems ... In 1980, Joy's young daughter Kate mysteriously flees the family home. Fifteen years later, Kate's own daughter Sabine leaves London in search of grandparents she has never known.
But with the family finally reunited, hidden tensions come to the surface, uncovering a dark secret which for years had been deeply buried. The fantastic first novel from Jojo Moyes, this is the story of three generations of women and their profoundly different experiences of love.