The Day I Left You
Ashley Barber
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Itraa Gold
, Jane Graham
, Dot Mann
, Mary Montague
, Tanya Blake
, Marjorie Roy
, Emily Johansen
, Patricia Johnson
, Prabh Toor
, Jude Castillo
, Brad MULLER
, Darryl Taylor
, Katie Kah
, Deana Bueley
, Alanna Virtue
, Agnes Marshall
, Penny Connolly
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Presley Robertson
, Sarah Dalton
, Sandra Furlotte
, Andrea Pole
, Tracy Johnston
, Marilyn Stanley
, Marc-André Taillefer
, Kim Carswell
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Brittney Warren
, Emily Steiner
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Cheryl Johnson
, diana cao
, Shelley Butcher
, Ryan Woods
, Rita Osullivan
, Wanda Hearn
, Anita Jones
, Tami Osato
, toni velthuis
, cassandra schiemann
, Sailaxmi Sahoo
, Dian Anderson
, Wendi Waage
, Paula Adam
, Debra Fisher
, Noelle Walsh
, Sharon Forzley
, Andrea Gillespie
, kristine hibbs
, Chris Carvalho
, Mary Therrien
, Desmond Tsang
, Natasha Andres
, Sara Mody
, Margaret Palmer
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Diana Richardson
, joy mills
, Janet Meisner
, Rodney Cross
, Sharon Bird
, Kathryn Galan
, Dana Francoeur
, ilona storie
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, CHRISTINE ST. JOHN
, C. Ray
, Heather Belliveau
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Donna Gamache
, Melissa Kohlman
, Huguette Lemieux
, Tara Jeles
, Fiona Kelly
, Robert Hykawy
, Brent van Staalduinen
, Lisa Mallia
, Mary Woods
, Wendy Houlden
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Suzanne Nesbitt
, Darlene Foster
, Wayne Harrigan
, Paula Ritchie
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Sara Conway
, Catherine Westerberg
, Rose Hately
, Jennifer Beyak
, Margaret McKay
, Liz Carlin
, Karen Lowe
, Katie Macalister
, Tanis Anne
, Hoda Montazeri
, Lynn Bechtel
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Rosa Cross
, Marilyn Sorensen
, Ken Gilmour
, Deborah Kennedy
, Laurel Nikolai
, Joe Mitchell
, Kim Patrick
, Melissa Dingwall
, M. Ingibergsson
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Christopher Purvis
, Lindsey Andronak
, Ellen Clarke
, Remi Gunn
, Lesley Cameron
, Patricia McKeown
, Sarah McComb
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joshua Lewis
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Barry Kazimer
, Vanessa S
, Sarah Schwartz
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Janet Hosokawa
, Krista Marryatt
, Sue MacDonald
, Michelle Arsenault
, Elle Kishia
, Alora Jantzi
, Daniela Rowane Thapa
, Joseph Chirayil
, LJ Law
, LINDA FOX
, Teagan Sedberry
, connie palmucci
, Lauraine Twilley
, Louise Walsh
, Ariane Béland
, katie locke
, Ashley Pocrnich
, Melissa Rivosecchi
, Sherri McKibben
, Simran Grover
, Pat Johnston
, Valerie Free
, Jen Bailey
, Carol Saponja
, Sarah James
, M M English
, Flatbush Library Library
, Joe Titone
, Roland Schigas
, Jenn George
, Christine Lion
, Roberta Cox
, Lynn Andrews
, Huguette Settle
, Barbara Nickerson
, Julie M.
, Susan Jang
, Chris Lantz
, Melissa Poremba
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For readers of The Secrets We Kept and Jill Santopolo comes an epic love story about Greta and Henry, who by chance meet in 1982 East Berlin and find a love that’s meant to last a lifetime—until Greta vanishes.
I’m sorry. I can’t stay.
East Berlin, 1982. When Greta Schneider meets Henry Henderson, she is instantly smitten. An engineer on a work visa from Britain, Henry offers Greta a taste of the world beyond the Iron Curtain, a world that she yearns to explore as a translator once she finishes university. For Henry, Greta is simply perfect—bold and beautiful, her lively and inquisitive nature adding a vital spark to his everyday life.
But their time together is limited. Henry can’t stay once his visa expires, and Greta is forbidden from going beyond the Berlin Wall. It’s only been a few weeks, but they know how they feel about each other, so when Henry proposes, Greta accepts—and is given permission to start a new life with Henry in England. And for a time, everything is perfect. Until, one day, out of the blue, Greta walks out the door of their Oxford home, leaving a simple note behind.
Decades later, Henry still has unanswered questions. Greta loved him, and he loved her. They surmounted the odds to be together, and in his heart, he knows their marriage was happy. So why did she leave? How well did he really know his wife? When a young mother visits Henry’s antique restoration shop, she unknowingly brings with her a clue that sends Henry on a journey to find out what happened to the love of his life all those years ago.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, The Day I Left You is a gorgeous, spellbinding story about the nature of love, the memories we cling to, and the hurts we must leave behind to move forward.
