Seventy-five-year-old Ronnie has made it her mission to help women of a certain age rediscover themselves. The owner of a palazzo in Rome, she has left her troubled past behind and reinvented herself in the most beautiful city in the world. And now she helps other women to do the same. Renting out her spare apartment for three months at a time, Ronnie invites her guests to take on a series of challenges that will help them to embrace beauty and joy, to rediscover themselves and to live their lives to the fullest.

But Ronnie’s confident exterior hides heartbreak and closely-held secrets. Why did she leave England all those years ago, and what was she running away from? How did a woman who helps others to fix their shattered lives become estranged from her very own daughter, Nadia?

As Ronnie welcomes her latest guest to the Rome apartment, Nadia appears unannounced on her doorstep – pregnant and alone. In order to fix her family, she will have to dig up secrets from her past that could risk destroying everything …