About the book
Michael Hartley and Anna Fitzgerald meet on a beach when they are young, unencumbered, at the beginning of everything.
What passes between them that afternoon—a walk, an ice cream, a conversation that runs longer than it should—is enough to matter. Not enough, yet, to change anything.
What follows is eighteen years. Difficult choices. Unexpected losses. Lives that do not unfold as planned. And, through it all, the quiet persistence of the one person each returns to when life becomes something they cannot quite carry alone.