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The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding’s sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she fell in love with the sea air, sandy beach and Tristan, Rachel’s older brother… All these years later, Clachan is where their most important occasions and conversations take place, so when Rachel organises a weekend there, Jo never suspects that this weekend will change everything.

Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David, for Grace’s own secrets have kept everyone else at bay. Until, suddenly and shockingly, one act tips Grace’s life upside down, and the music seems to stop. It takes a vivacious old man and a straight-talking teenager to kickstart a new chapter for Grace.

Cate Morris and her son, Leo, are homeless. They’ve packed up the boxes from their London home, said good-bye to friends and now they are on their way to Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World to stay just for the summer. Cate doesn’t want to be there, in Richard’s family home, without Richard to guide her any more. And she knows for sure that Araminta, the retainer of the collection of dusty objects and stuffed animals, has taken against them. But they have nowhere else to go. They have to make the best of it. But Richard hasn’t told Cate the truth about his family’s history.

In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.

Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World, a dilapidated, once-whimsical museum, offers unexpected solace to a grieving widow and exposes secrets that will alter the course of her life. When Cate and Richard met at university they felt an immediate spark, but as the couple matured, Richard’s inner demons threatened their happiness. With time, he receded further and further into darkness until he disappeared altogether. Now, four years after Richard’s passing, Cate is let go from her teaching job and can’t pay the rent on the London flat she shares with her and Richard’s son, Leo.

Grace stand vor einer großen musikalischen Karriere, bis ein traumatisches Ereignis alles veränderte. Nun repariert sie in ihrem kleinen englischen Dorf Musikinstrumente. Ihr Leben dreht sich vor allem um David, ihre große Liebe. Seit acht Jahren führt Grace mit ihm eine Beziehung, die über alle Zweifel erhaben ist. Und seit acht Jahren wartet sie sehnsüchtig darauf, dass David seine Frau verlässt. Doch dann passiert etwas, das alles in Frage stellt.