Innocence

From New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Tessaro comes a poignant funny andunforgettable story of real life real love and fantasyand the changes they put you through. 1986. Starry-eyed and ready to take the world by storm Evie Garlick leaves her small town of Eden Ohio to study drama in London intent on becoming a star of the classical stage. But when she arrives in England it quickly becomes clear shes way out of her elementand completely unprepared for what fate has in store for her.Luckily her new flatmate the larger-than-life Robbie immediately takes the bewildered Evie under her wing. Glamorous and bohemian Robbies unorthodox Greenwich Village upbringing and reckless lust for life both dazzle and astonish Evie. Soon the drama offstage in their small student flat is more exciting than any Broadway play. And when Evie meets Jake a defiantly self-assured young musician bent on two thingssuccess and hershe finds herself suddenly in far too deep painfully in love out of control and yet thrillingly alive questioning everything about herselfand her dreams.2001.Robbie has been dead for five years and Evie now a single mother is still living in London. Resigned to earning a living by teaching drama to night students her life bears little resemblance to the one shed imagined for herself fifteen years ago. Her carefully ordered routine and beloved son help to keep the memories and regrets at baymost of the time. But when the past pays Evie a visit shes forced to confront the ambitious young woman she used to be and re-examine the choices she madeand those she couldntin order to claim a new future.