London 1958.
3 women, and 3 different lives intertwined as they live in a boarding house in 1950’s London.
Edie, Phyllis, and Tommie each have there own secrets.
A mixture of unrequited love, pain and sorrow of a family loss and domestic violence makes up some poignant scenes in this book.
The women in this book have had a variety of injustices thrown at them. In a time when women were seen as the weaker sex, they often showed incredible resilience.
Trigger warning as there is a graphic description of a back street abortion in the book.

There were a few debut novels that I raved about last year, and as this year I'm reading the second books, I'm almost nervous, because my expectations are now high.
Thankfully this one does not disappoint.
It puts you through the wringer slightly in terms of all the emotions, as the three women of Dove Street tell their stories.
The unravelling of Edie's story the most heartbreaking.
I may have welled up a bit I those last few pages, and I'll admit, I'm left needing to know more.