The socially awkward Peter Byerly is an antiquarian book collector who might have just made a huge discovery.
Peter might have just discovered a manuscript–possibly a new Shakespearean manuscript–which needless to say would be priceless!
Peter is in a bad spot, he’s just lost his wife nine months prior to the opening of the novel, and he’s really only ever loved two things…..books and Amanda. So now he’s left with only his books.
Living in America, he decides to leave behind his old life and go live in the country cottage in the English countryside that him and Amanda bought before her death.
Living in the cottage makes Peter somewhat of a recluse. But while flipping through some old books/papers, he finds a portrait of a woman that looks a lot like Amanda…..but the problem is, the portrait was painted 100 years before she was even born! Could it possibly be her? What is her connection to the painting?
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