The Last Closed Door

di Harriet Dunsmore (Autore)

Harriet Dunsmore, 2026

Not every wonder can be kept. Not every closed door means an ending. At forty-seven, Roxanne Dempsey can finally imagine earning her living through magic. There is a qualification still to win, a possible paid fellowship, and a home she and Douglas might choose together. For once, the future contains things she wants, not merely duties she can manage. Then a corridor at the College of Second Arts briefly opens onto the wrong place. The former seaside resort has given Roxanne astonishing rooms, difficult friends and work worth learning. Now its altered connections are disrupting ordinary lessons, and the wonders she longs to preserve cannot simply be declared safe. With her fellow adult students and their teachers, she joins an expedition to discover what can remain, what must change, and whether her own hopeful proposal can withstand an honest test. The beautiful answer is not necessarily the right one. But abandoning something precious deserves more than a convenient explanation. Between field preparations, shared meals and evenings with Douglas, Roxanne must make room for competing ambitions and futures that will not always fit together neatly. Her final months at the college will ask more of her than courage: the judgement to recognise a limit, and the confidence to build a life beyond it.

• Autore: Harriet Dunsmore
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Harriet Dunsmore
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237295795