It's 1969, the summer of love in London, but Gilda is still trapped in the repercussions of her wartime past. Lonely and unhappy, she is cut off from her only son, Reuben, who she lost custody of when
'A novel to detonate the heart. Fans of Gail Honeyman and Joanna Cannon will love Bitter' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'As gripping as Zoe Heller's Notes on A Scandal' Peter Bradshaw,