Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another.’Wistful, yearning and wise’ Elizabeth Day1914:Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.1927:For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.1933:Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time…’Fascinating… A rich, dark story’ The Times