When life doesn't give you a happily ever after ... New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is forced to reinvent her life and raise her daughter alone on sheer will and courage. Brought up to be a 'nice girl', to never step out of bounds, and educated for a career as a wife and mother, Fanny quickly learns that the real world isn't so straightforward. When Fanny gets a job working for the queen of radio dramas, she finally has a sense of control over her life - until two very different men enter, giving Fanny an impossible choice. Will Fanny play it safe, or do what she knows is right? Ellen Feldman, the international bestselling author of Paris Never Leaves You, presents a gripping tale of ethics, love and self-determination in a vivid historical setting - a story of heart, history and impossible choices.

Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, is an American author, including the novels The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, Scottsboro (shortlisted for the Orange Prize), Paris Never Leaves You and Return to Berlin. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Ellen grew up in northern New Jersey, USA, and holds a BA and MA in modern history. After further graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house.

Ellen lives in New York City with her husband and a terrier named Charlie.