Two former lovers meet across space and time. But what brought them back together? And can they really trust their pasts? A dialogue between world views reopens and an old love burns again... The new novel from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.
A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calendar - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home 50 years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem.