A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best.
Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family.
The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.
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“Anna Bentinck and Karen Cass are the spellbinding narrators of this delightful novel. They’re both equally gifted at capturing the mysterious ambience of the story, as well as every emotion…The dual narration is seamless and thoroughly engaging from start to finish. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
“Walters…bring[s] both history and characters alive.”
— Historical Novels Review“A heartbreaking tale of loss, missed chances, and enduring love.”
— Good Housekeeping (UK)“A first novel of great charm and assurance, beautifully told and utterly gripping.”
— Times (London)“A breathtaking, beautifully crafted tale of loves that survive secrets.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Walters’ skill in seamlessly moving between time periods enables readers to truly understand her characters’ complicated lives and emotions and be entranced by the deeply romantic story.”
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Louise Walters was born in Oxfordshire and now lives in Northamptonshire with her husband and five children. She graduated from the Open University in 2010. Mrs. Sinclaire’s Suitcase is her first novel.
Anna Bentinck is a British actress who trained at Arts Educational Schools and has worked extensively for BBC Radio. Winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has provided voices for many audiobooks and such animated series as 64 Zoo Lane. Her film credits include Alice in Wonderland and To the Devil a Daughter.
Karen Cass is a voice artist and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of more than thirty audiobooks.