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Twenty-one years. One courtyard. One lit window.

On a cold October night in Boston, a man sits in a brick courtyard with a guitar across his knees. He plays three chords — the only three he ever learned — and watches the third-floor window for any sign that the woman inside remembers them.

Michael Moran has been searching since 1969. For Elizabeth, the girl he ran away with at sixteen and lost to silence and war. For Daniel, the blind son he left as an infant and has spent fifteen years trying to find. For James — the other twin, raised by strangers, whose trail has only just become visible.

What Michael doesn't know, sitting in that courtyard, is that the music found his sons first.

Told through four voices across two decades, The Window is a novel about estrangement and reconciliation, about the families we search for and the ones we are given, and about the ordinary miracle of a family that refuses to stay lost.

For readers of A Man Called Ove, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.

The Window is a story of music and memory, of adoption and homecoming, of the fathers we lose and the ones we become. It is a novel about grief and hope held in the same hand, about the long arithmetic of forgiveness, and about how a single piece of music — Schubert's Ständchen, written two hundred years ago — can carry what words cannot.

An emotional, character-driven debut for book clubs and readers of literary family sagas.