How do you build bridges if you've never admitted that they've been broken?

"The work I do, the pressure of the job, has always been my protection..."

Richard Kirkwood has a secret ... a secret he's kept buried beneath unrelenting work. Now his wife has followed a job to New York and a corporate scandal has put him on garden leave. He's got nowhere left to hide. So when Richard announces he's looking for Julie, a girl he last saw 40 years ago, everyone suspects he's still carrying a torch for his childhood sweetheart.

But this search is so much more.

The stunning, powerful new novel from Michael Bartlett