From the co-author of the international best-seller, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. ‘I can’t stand this poky little town any more. How can I bear it for three more months? Today alone has lasted years…’ Disinherited by her father, the debutante Miss Layla Beck is forced to spend the hot summer of 1938 in Macedonia, West Virginia, and is tasked with recording the small town’s history.