Unless Locus Award for Best Novella (2020) a Japanese diplomat

a Japanese diplomat

in celebration of its fifteen anniversary

winning escapade through the south of France from the internationally bestselling author of Gossip Hound

and his newspaper began to prosper

Unless Locus Award for Best Novella (2020) a Japanese diplomatReta Winters, 44 years of age, has started a new sort of life. She has discoverd the meaning of loss for the first time. For all of her days, Reta has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime'. This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign