After her husband’s death and the loss of her job, Cate Morris relocates with her young son to his ancestral Victorian museum in the small coastal town of Crouch-on-Sea. Surrounded by quirky taxidermy displays and sprawling grounds, she sets out to revive the museum and rebuild a life for them both.

Told with warmth and quietly sharp observation, the story follows Cate as domestic pressures, a prickly caretaker and outside threats force her to reconsider the past. As she digs into the museum’s history, she also confronts the truth about Richard’s death and what it means for her future.

Fans of character-driven contemporary fiction will appreciate the novel’s blend of grief, memory and gentle redemption.

• Setting: Victorian museum, small-town England
• Pages: 336 • Paperback • Simon & Schuster
• Themes: grief, motherhood, memory, renewal

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