The Piano in the Tree

Sixteen years ago, Polly failed to meet her girlfriend at a Berlin train station, and the future they had imagined together fell apart. Now Ksenia Tokarycz returns to Australia, where an overdue piano delivery draws her back to her childhood home. Polly is still next door. Their reunion brings old feelings into contact with the lives they have built in the years apart, and with memories that neither can simply put aside. An unexpected discovery involving the piano adds another complication to Ksenia’s homecoming. Moving between Australia and Europe, this second-chance romance follows two women trying to understand the distance between what happened to them and what they believed about each other.