The Swallow and the Hummingbird [Paperback]

'Glamorous, memorable, delicious' (Wendy Holden, Sunday Express )

'Romantics will adore this story of yearning love.' (Daily Express )

Praise for THE FORGET-ME-NOT SONATA:
'Santa Montefiore has proved herself a talented novelist'

'Classy romantic saga. Escape into a world of ardent love and doomed desire'

'The kind of book you can’t wait to get back to'

'Romantics will adore this story of yearning love.'

'Glamorous, memorable, delicious'

When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a reassuring continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. Unable to settle back into the sleepy seaside village, George resolves to spend a year on the family farm in Argentina, and, despite her disappointment, Rita promises to wait for him.

Rita keeps her promise. But for George there are irresistible temptations, and an agonising choice to make ...

Santa Montefiore was born in England in 1970 to an Anglo-Argentine mother, and read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University. She lives in London with her husband, the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their children, Lily and Sasha. Visit Santa's website at www.santamontefiore.co.uk