The story opens with Lily, feeling rather queasy. It's a couple of days before Christmas and she's about to leave the offices of the ecologically aware charity where she works.
She has something important that she needs to tell Ed, her partner. But she knows full well that she has left it way too late to tell him.
Everyone knows that the relationship between them was fine. Better than fine, even! They all knew it was safe and rock-solid. Only, maybe it wasn't as sound a ship as everyone was thinking?
36 hours later they planned to be together to spend a wonderful holiday in Iceland for a truly fantastic and white Christmas break.
A visit to a pharmacy on the way to the train station (she needed peace of mind of the kind only readily available via pharmacies) was a disaster as she had left her bank card on the counter and was, as a result, unable to buy her ticket at Cardiff Central Station to London Paddington, because when she quickly made her way to the pharmacy, it was closed and the shutters down.
She decided to take the bus to London's Victoria Coach Station, instead. Even though the journey would be almost twice as long, she felt she had no other choice.
She spoke with Ed who, again, questioned why it was that she seemed to like making things more complicated? After all, he always could book train tickets for her?
But there were things happening with, or to, Lily that Ed didn't know about. Or was he trying desperately hard not to know about those things?
The fact that work had taken her away from the capital of England to the capital city of Wales had certainly complicated matters.
Is their relationship doomed? Wrecked beyond compare?
Then her charity work takes her to Serbia where she has to deal with the sad plight of sundry refugees from new violent hotspots.
Can she find time for Ed? And if she does, will Ed still be there for her?
This is a very finely crafted romance for our modern, highspeed lives.
It's published by The Book Guild at £8.99 and is written by Sofia Due.
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