A love story about the enduring power of love and how we all fold away our feelings and dreams—but it only takes one person to help us to see a bigger world is out there for the taking.
Pip's life is a small one, as a single mother still living with her parents and teenage daughter. Her tiny acts of rebellion are to escape to a Pilates class or work behind a different counter in the local petrol station. Years ago, she made one mistake—and she's never found a way to overcome the fallout.
Until a stranger stands in front of her sandwich counter. Io is visiting the Observatory: a scientist, he's looking for a signal from a distant star. The two of them strike up an unlikely friendship. Slowly, Pip's world expands—and as she starts to see things differently, she begins to unfold her heart to let others in.
And when Jamie, the one person who has always held her heart, returns, Pip begins to sees there could a whole new world for her altogether...
