The Perfect Present-------pan macmillan
Memories are a gift . . .
Haunted by a past she can’t
escape, Laura Cunningham desires nothing more than to keep her world
small and precise - her quiet relationship and growing jewellery
business are all she needs to get by. Until the December day when Rob
Blake walks into her studio and commissions a necklace that will tell
his enigmatic wife Cat’s life in charms.
As Laura interviews
Cat’s family, friends and former lovers, she steps out of her world and
into theirs – a charmed world where weekends are spent in Verbier and
the air is lavender-scented, where friends are wild, extravagant and
jealous, and a big love has to compete with grand passions.
Hearts
are opened, secrets revealed and as the necklace begins to fill up with
trinkets, Cat’s intoxicating life envelops Laura’s own. By the time she
has to identify the final charm, Laura’s metamorphosis is almost
complete. But the last story left to tell has the power to change all of
their lives forever, and Laura is forced to choose between who she
really is and who it is she wants to be.