Sunlight Finds You

A forbidden love blows open the world of a young woman, altering the trajectory of her life.

Postwar America is a time of rigid social rules. But when effervescent, seventeen-year-old Nora moves to Florida, she’s found paradise – especially after she meets and wins over shy, brilliant Leonard. His mother is welcoming, but his father is suspicious of Nora and her lower-class family.

When coerced into breaking off all contact with Leonard, Nora makes a decision that exiles her from the family she loves, and sets off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her for years.

Laura Moriarty’s Sunlight Finds You is a compelling and warm-hearted love story that explores ideas about family, female desire, sexism, motherhood and prejudice. It’s about our capacity to forgive – ourselves and others – and about finding happiness by refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.

By the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Chaperone , this is an emotionally rich story whose characters you will care about deeply – for readers of Anne Patchett’s Tom Lake and Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye .