At first she assumes Russ coordinated this with friends while he was in the hospital, prior to his passing, but she has a sneaking suspicion that someone else is involved. Music that connects her to her lost love. When she sits down at the piano one day, however, she finds a surprise: someone has left her sheet music.

It's been two years since Russ' passing, but Natalie isn't quite sure how to move on. Aside from a few new friends at the coffee shop in the train station, this is Natalie's only true connection to the outside world. Every day she visits a Tube station stop where a community piano sits and she plays for the people walking by. Feeling broken, Natalie struggles to find her way in the life 'after' Russ, and her passion for music encourages her to 'play on'-but in a very specific way. Her husband Russ ends up passing away after a tragic accident. Just when Natalie thought she had everything figured out-perfect husband, perfect new 'make-it-our-own' cottage to share with said husband, and a dream partner and friend to co-write a splashy and magnificent musical-fate intervened. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp

**Many thanks to NetGalley, Atria, and Lia Louis for a ARC in exchange for an honest review! Now available as of 12.6!** As she investigates just who could be doing this, Natalie finds herself on an unexpected journey toward newfound love for herself, for life, and maybe, for a special someone. She’s lost motivation, faith in love, in happiness…in everything.īut when someone begins to mysteriously leave the sheet music for her husband’s favorite songs at the station’s piano, Natalie begins to feel a sense of hope and excitement for the first time. And she can only bring herself to play music at a London train station’s public piano where she can be anonymous. She works, sleeps (well, as much as the sexually frustrated village foxes will allow), and sees friends just often enough to allay their worries, but her life is empty. Two and a half years later, Natalie is still lost. But when her husband suddenly dies, all her hopes and dreams instantly disappear. Sparkly and charming Natalie Fincher has it all-a handsome new husband, a fixer-upper cottage of her dreams, and the opportunity to tour with the musical she’s spent years writing.

A heartwarming novel about hope after loss as a young widow receives mysterious messages of love from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

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