Three things about Elsie

The Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Lovely, lovely, lovely… Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Powerful and profound’ Guardian ‘Another sure-fire hit’ Daily Mail ‘Funny, melancholy, acutely observant’ Sunday Express ‘Cannon is so attuned to other people’s stories… a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are’ Guardian 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly.

As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew – a man who died sixty years ago.

His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they’d laid to rest.

Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light …