Natalie lost her husband a few years ago and is really struggling to "move on". She feels so much pressure from the people around her to do so that she spends a lot of time avoiding them.

One of the few things she enjoys is playing a public Piano in a train station a few days a week. But someone has started to leave sheet music in the bench for her, and it's all music that has significant meaning to her. 

In her journey to figure out where this music is coming from and what it means, she finally starts making new connections and feeling like she might be ready to start letting go.

Books about grief always hit me incredibly hard, especially when dealing with the loss of a spouse because that's something I often can't stop myself from worrying about. Natalie's grief, guilt, and shame feel incredibly real and poignant. My heart was broken for her at the beginning of the book and watching her slowly come back out of her shell and being to heal made me very happy.

This is not a romance, but there is romance in it. The story overall is about people who are in pain or who've experienced trauma finding ways to heal and ways to connect both with their old and new friends.

It's a bit of a slow read in some parts but it's very much worth making it to the end.

Thanks to Netgalley and Atria books for the advanced copy of this book!