After spending five years in the magical, pastoral world of the Woodlands, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell are suddenly returned to post-World War II England. Evelyn desperately longs to return to the Woodlands, while Philippa tries to move forward in their real world. The novel explores their separate journeys through grief, belonging, and identity, asking the profound question: if you find your true home in another world, how do you live when you're forced to leave it? Told in two parts from each sister's perspective, it's a lyrical and haunting story about the cost of survival and the different shapes love can take.