Rainy Day, Jojo Moyes

June 1953. On the evening of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Hong Kong's expat community gathers to celebrate. While everyone struggles to follow the ceremony on a faulty radio, young Joy falls madly in love. Twenty-four hours later, she is engaged. But she won't see her fiancé again for a year. In 1980, her daughter Kate rebels by fleeing Ireland with Sabine, her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later, Sabine leaves her mother and London to take refuge with her grandparents, Edward and Joy, whom she barely knows. But the Irish countryside seems bleak to the rebellious teenager. When Sabine, her mother, and her grandmother are reunited, a deeply buried family secret resurfaces, bringing with it fundamental truths: the inevitable conflict between love and duty, the choices women make, and the complex relationships between mothers and daughters.