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A moving story of family and a life-long love affair in 1950s London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford.

London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she ­finds herself…

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Juliet Montague's husband abandoned her with two children in late 1950s London. Her Jewish religion has labeled her as invisible. For her birthday, she forgoes a new refrigerator and commissions a portrait of herself from an artist in the park.

Intrigued by the art world of swinging 1960s London, she decides to open a gallery to showcase all her new artist friends. She, in turn, becomes a muse to them and a lover to one. When her husband is featured in a Jewish newspaper, the Gallery of Vanished Husbands, she is confronted with the possibility of finding him.

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