This was such a surprisingly good read! It features Flora, a 17yo with bipolar II disorder who has withdrawn from life and suffers a constant battle in her brain to work out if her reactions are another episode coming on or just her reacting to situations. So when a guest at the hotel she works at, Hal, requires her help in doing a local history project about a soldier from World War 1, she’s very hesitant to say the least. 
But what transpires is a really lovely story, learning about this soldier and his life - involving a secret love affair - and Flora learning some things about herself too. 

I expected a romance with a few skeleton in the closet life issues but this book became so much more then that. I think the rep of bipolar II disorder was so importent to read about - not one I’ve read before. The constant battle that Flora was having inside her mind, with herself felt exhausting just to read about, let alone suffer through, and it invoked so much respect from me. 
The romance that features in this books is really sweet and free from a really lovely friendship and bond over learning about this secret past of the ww1 soldier. I also liked that the romance didn’t miraculously solve all of Flora’s problems but instead gave her the option to work through things and put the skills she learnt in her therapy in practice to create her own happy ending both for her head and heart.
I loved learning the story of the ww1 soldier and by the end I was so invested in how his story would end.
The story even made me shed a few happy tears by the end.
Only reason it wasn’t a 5 star is because I can’t see myself ever rereading it.