Miranda of the Balcony: A Story
Miranda has spent years on her balcony, gazing out at the sea that swallowed her husband Ralph. A widow bound by grief and social expectation, she has built a quiet life among the Scilly Islands, tending her memories like a garden. Then a short-sighted taxidermist named M. Claude Fournier arrives with an obsessive mission: to find a wreck off Rosevear, a treacherous rock where many ships have met their end. What he discovers there will unravel everything Miranda thought she knew about her past. Her husband did not drown. He has been living, all these years, on that isolated island. And waiting in the wings is Charnock, a man whose connection to Miranda's history runs deeper than she realizes. A.E.W. Mason crafts a tale of patience, secrets, and the question that haunts every broken heart: can we love again without betraying what we lost?
