Every Precious And Fragile Thing

A mother and daughter try desperately to reconcile simply as a decades-old mystery threatens to shatter their courting all the time on this effective story from the bestselling creator of The Echo of Old Books.

For social worker Mallory Ward, running with at-hazard teenagers is a calling. But whilst one among her customers is tragically killed, she reveals herself at a crossroads. Despite lengthy-held resentments towards her remote mom, Mallory retreats to her adolescence domestic at the Rhode Island coast to ponder her destiny. Instead, she’s confronted through her beyond, not most effective inside the renewed tensions with her mom but in the sudden look of a acquainted face―and the wrenching losses that drove her away a decade ago.

Helen Ward’s domestic is packed with precious keepsakes from her sufferers, a testomony to a long time spent being concerned for the terminally ill. Her paintings has always come first, although, leaving little time to hook up with her daughter. Over the years, the rift among them has become a chasm, so when Mallory seems unannounced, Helen sees it as an opportunity to repair their broken relationship.

But hidden amongst Helen’s mementos are the keys to her past…and a terrible mystery that threatens to wreck the delicate new accept as true with between them all the time.