CR Library recommendation. Enjoyed very much.KIRKUS REVIEWLetters and postcards once used as bookmarks flutter out of used books, forgotten signs of liaisons.Roberta treasures books so much that she pines away in her beloved job at Old and New Bookshop, watching Philip, her boss and the man she can?t yet admit to herself that she loves, take the beautiful Jenna as his lover. But secrets begin to spill out of the books¥secrets that will change her understanding of the past and hopes for the future. One fateful day, Roberta?s father, John, brings in an old suitcase labeled ?Mrs. D. Sinclair,? filled with her grandmother Dorothea Pietrykowski?s old books. Between the pages, Roberta discovers a letter dated Feb. 8, 1941, signed by her grandfather Jan Pietrykowski, warning Dorothea that what she is about to do will dishonor her, imperil her very soul, and wrong some unnamed mother and child. If only Roberta could ask her grandmother or her father about the letter, but at 109, Dorothea has entered hospice care, and John?s health is failing, as well. Meanwhile, Jenna confesses to a bewildered Roberta that she's pregnant with a child fathered by her ex-boyfriend. Walters? debut novel nimbly weaves together Roberta?s and Dorothea?s storiesÂ¥the reader almost expects to pull a shadowy missive from its spine. Roberta?s life is a mess; she stifles her feelings for Philip, twisting her desires into a sad affair with a married man. But Dorothea?s story is the stuff of films: disowned, disappointed in marriage, crushed by multiple miscarriagesÂ¥Dorothea rises above it all to manage her own farmhouse, to take into her home two young women, part of the Women?s Land Army, and to find new love with Jan, the dashing Polish Squadron Leader.A breathtaking, beautifully crafted tale of loves that survive secrets.