The chapters in this book alternate between Bea, Veronica and Gemma.
At age 22 Bea learns, via a letter from her mother who died a year previously, that she was adopted.
Veronica has moved back to Boothbay Harbour in Maine and is making pies filled with happy thoughts for the local community. This is the place where, at age 16, she was sent to a home for pregnant teens and was abandoned by her family.
Gemma has lost her job as a journalist and is being pressured by her husband to start a family and move from New York to the country to be closer to his parents. She is not ready to give up her career but discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant.
Bea travels to Boothbay Harbour to meet her biological mother. Gemma travels there to attend the wedding of an old friend and stays a while to write a story for the local paper as it is the 50th anniversary of Hope House, the home on the edge of town for pregnant teens.
A film crew are setting up to shoot a new movie in which Colin Firth will star. All three want to see Colin Firth, and Gemma wants to get an exclusive interview. This brings them all together, new friendships are formed and lives and futures re-assessed.
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