The stunning new novel from best-selling Elizabeth Buchan.
The Museum of Broken Promises is a beautiful, evocative love story and
heart-breaking journey in to a long-buried past.
Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and
sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated - a
cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of
grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to
speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest.
Laure, the owner and curator, has also hidden artefacts from her own
painful youth amongst the objects on display.
Prague, 1985. Recovering from the sudden death of her father, Laure
flees to Prague. But life behind the Iron Curtain is a complex thing:
drab and grey yet charged with danger. Laure cannot begin to comprehend
the dark, political currents that run beneath the surface of this
communist city. Until, that is, she meets a young dissident musician.
Her love for him will have terrible and unforeseen consequences.
It is only years later, having created the museum, that Laure can
finally face up to her past and celebrate the passionate love which has
directed her life.
