Foreign Fruit

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By Jojo Moyes

Merham, 1950s: a seaside town where everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift arrived as a wartime evacuee and was raised by the respectable Holden family alongside their daughter Celia, who cannot wait to leave.

When a group of artists takes over Arcadia, the Art Deco house on the seafront, the two girls are drawn to it and the town is scandalised by it. Fifty years later a woman restoring the same house uncovers what happened that summer. Published in some editions as Windfallen.

First published 2003