If I Could Tell You

''Heart-wrenching . . . intoxicating . . . a very English Anna Karenina'' The Times

''Vivid, candid, engaging. So honest'' Helen Dunmore

Suffolk, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician, she now has a handsome husband who pays the bills, a young son she adores and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then on the eve of war something unexp...