From a quiet London hallway to a shared life built one small moment at a time, a beautifully written romance about the courage it takes to hope again.
Amara Hassan has spent three years building a careful life in London after a relationship that ended quietly, sadly, and without warning. Her flat, her work at a literary publishing house, her Saturday bookshop, everything is exactly as she arranged it. Exactly enough.
hen her new neighbour moves in with a bookcase six centimetres too wide for the door, and nothing stays quite as arranged as it was.
Adam is an architect taking time away from the life he built and the life that fell apart. He has a daughter in Edinburgh he drives seven hours to see every other fortnight, a commission he is slowly finding his way back to, and a smile that arrives before it is sure of its welcome. Neither of them is looking for anything. Neither of them can quite stop noticing the other.