before i met you

After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin

her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer

jobs—all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age—in order to care

for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English

island of Guernsey. Her will included a beneficiary unknown to Betty and

her family, a woman named Clara Pickle who presumably could be found at

a London address. Now, having landed on a rather shabby street corner

in ’90s Soho, Betty is determined to find the mysterious Clara. She’s

ready for whatever life has to throw her way. Or so she thinks . . .