*Shortlisted for the Eharmony/Orion Write Your Own Love Story Prize.
“A poignant and stirring love story… Taylor’s accomplished, genre-bending book succeeds as a historical novel and a beguiling, time-travel romance.” — Kirkus Reviews.
In 1916 Lt Robert Lovett is a patient at Coldbrook Hall military hospital, England. A gifted artist, he’s been wounded in WW1 and is suffering from shell shock and hysterical blindness.
A century later in 2017, medical student Louisa Casson has just lost her beloved grandmother. A drunken mishap on nearby cliffs leads doctors to fear a suicide attempt, and she’s involuntarily admitted to Coldbrook Hall psychiatric hospital.
Then one day, while secretly exploring the old hospital’s abandoned wing, Louisa stumbles across a strange, old-fashioned room. Inside, lying in the dark, is a mysterious young man – who tells her his name is Lt Robert Lovett…”
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