I really liked this book. It was a time slip story from the 1940s and 2017. I think I worked really well as Harriets story set in the present was well told from her traumatic events of losing her mother and how this set her on her path to where she was and ultimately what she learnt along the way as the story of her grandmother Claire was told to her from her friend Simone who she flat shared with in Paris who’s grandmother Mireille was Claires friend during the war. Harriet has gone to Paris on an internship ship for a year, she is living above the agency where she is flat sharing with Simone who is already there. It’s when harriet is unpacking and Simone sees a photo that she tells Harriet that one of the women in the photo is her grandmother Mireille and Harriet asks her to find out from her grandmother about hers and there life in Paris during the war. Simone warns her that she may not like what she hears. There are three women in the old photo as the story unfolds you start to hear about the lives of the three seamstresses on how they lived as best they could in circumstances none of us now could even think possible. Impossible choices had to be made as loyalty is tested and what they endure is a dark and difficult time lived through courage and support for one another. This was sensitively written and i would like to know more about Mireille’s life after the war as we found out in this one of the other two. I will most definitely will read more by this author