Finding Eanswythe: Being the loves and life of Dr. Mike Forrester from 1994 to date Paperback – March 11, 2026

What do you do when the woman you never stopped loving walks back into your life — wearing a nun's habit?Mike Forrester has spent thirty years making peace with the one that got away. He has a decent career, a few good friends, a dog called Buck, and the quiet, unshakeable sense that nothing has ever quite measured up to one golden summer in Kent.Then, on a night ferry to the Shetland Islands, he sits down next to two nuns — and finds himself face to face with Arabella Proudlove.She was the most extraordinary person he had ever known: breathtakingly beautiful, brilliantly clever, and possessed of a warmth that made everyone around her a little better than they were. She was also, it turned out, destined for something far beyond the life he had imagined for them both.Finding Eanswythe moves between the intoxicating summer of 1994 — countryside rides and starlit clifftops, Paris on a whim, evenings that seemed to last forever — and the rueful, wryly funny present tense of a man in his fifties who thought that chapter was firmly closed. When Arabella's astonishing life brings her back to him, the question is no longer what they lost. It is whether, after everything, there might still be time.A love story unlike any other: tender, funny, and quietly devastating.For readers of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, A.S. Byatt, and anyone who has ever wondered what became of the person they should never have let go. Read more