Nicci Gerrard: The Twilight Hour (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
To any passer-by, Eleanor Lee might be almost invisible - just another elderly lady - but beneath the surface lies a powerful secret she has kept hidden for decades...

At the dawn of the Second World War, Eleanor is a fiercely independent young woman, determined to write her own future, rejecting marriage for passion, security for adventure. But now, seventy years later, alone in her hig old house, she is anxious us erase the past.

Peter Mistley, a young man escaping his own ghosts, is employed to help Eleanor sort through her lifetime of possessions. For amongst them are things that her children and grandchildren must never find. Together, Eleanor and Peter uncover traces of another lief - words and photographs revealing a story of forbidden love, betrayal, guilt and self-sacrifice.

but by releasing her memories at last, can Elmnor still protect those who must never know the truth?

Nicci Gerrard: The Twilight Hour. A lifetime of secrets. One last chance to confess... Penguin, ISBN: 9781405919838 (October, 2014), 409 p., £7.99.