Thanks Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for my advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a beautiful family saga, telling the struggles and strength of two families. Bonnie and Mansour meet in 1968 in New York City. A jazz artist, Mansour falls for Bonnie, who works at his record label, as they travel the world for his gigs. Bonnie becomes pregnant, and is whisked off to Switzerland to be with Mansour’s family. But one night, Mansour falls to call her and seems to have disappeared. So begins their search for him, and a slow understanding of each Bonnie and Mansour’s complicated paths in life thus far.

I found this book to be tender and emotive and incredibly real. While I didn’t quite ‘get’ the musical, jazz thread running throughout the story, I really enjoyed the slow unfolding of two narratives here. It was a little hard to follow via e-reader, since the chapters denote years and I like to flick back and forth, but I just loved rummaging through generations of time-capsuled stories, deftly blended in with a missing persons storyline.