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Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickins meets Harry Holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself. White organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It is party season and the university crowd are celebrating end-of-year exams. Zara loves dancing with the boys and flirting with them, but it's a game to her. Nothing serious. Until Harry. He plans to be a politician once he finishes law. She, a fashion designer, if she can find a way to break out of the secretarial pool.

1926. Violet Armstrong er tjenestepige på det luksuriøse Evergreen Spa Hotel, hvor Australiens overklasse tilbringer vintermånederne. Da hun første gang får øjenkontakt med unge, velhavende Sam Honeychurch-Black, slår det gnister, men deres forhold er lige så forbudt, som det er passioneret, og da en snestorm fanger både gæster og ansatte på hotellet spidser situationen til 2014. Lauren Beck arbejder på en café i Blue Mountains ved siden af det, der engang var Evergreen Spa Hotel.

"Tilly tvang sine kraftløse muskler til at bevæge sig. Løb hen efter kufferten, styrtede gennem havelågen og ud i den snævre gyde, ned til havnen, til skibet, som ville føre hende væk fra dette mareridt af en ø, på vej mod en uvis fremtid." I 1891 ender Tilly Kirklands stormfulde ægteskab i en katastrofe, som sender hende på flugt til den anden ende af verden. Under et nyt navn tager hun job som guvernante for fængselsdirektørens datter, Nell, på den lille australske ø Ember Island.

From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.

In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. In 2009, London, prima ballerina Lydia Blaxland-Hunter is also discovering that life can also have its ups and downs. Unable to dance again after a fall, Lydia returns home to Australia to recuperate.