نویسنده : جوجو مویز داستان که در سال های 1963 و 2001 جریان دارد درباره مادر و دختری به نام آتنه فورستر و سوزانا پیکاک است. آتنه دختری زیبا و خارج از کنترل است که تنها دو سال پس از ازدواجش شایعاتی درباره رابطه ی او با مردی دیگر پخش می شود. سی و پنج سال بعد، سوزانا پس از پیدا کردن فروشگاهی که مادر برایش به ارث گذاشته است، به آنجا پناه می برد و تحت تاثیر دیوارهای جادویی آن علاوه بر گذر از مشکلات ازدواجش با دنیایی تازه روبه رو می شود، اما روح آتنه رهایش نمی کند و اتفاقاتی دراماتیک را برایش رقم می زند. او تنها از طریق رویارویی با گذشته قادر به روبرو شدن با آینده خواهد بود. گزیده ای از کتاب : Vivi sat down heavily on the stool, reached for a pot, and began to wipe the day from her face. She was not a vain woman – there were only two pots on her dressing-table, one for cleansing and a supermarket moisturizer – but tonight she looked at the reflection before her and felt immensely tired, as if someone had placed an intolerable weight on her shoulders. I might as well be invisible, she thought, for all the influence I have in this family. As a younger woman, she had shepherded her three children around the country, had supervised their reading, eating and brushing of teeth, had refereed their squabbles and dictated what they should wear. She had fulfilled her maternal tasks with certainty, rebuffing their protest, setting their boundaries, confident in her own abilities Now she was impotent, incapable of intervening in their fights, of helping to lighten their unhappiness’s