October in Tunis smells like jasmine and secrets.

Nadia Berrada thought she had left her family's past buried beneath two autumns. A daughter of two shores—French and Tunisian—she has spent thirty years trying to outrun a single sentence whispered by her mother: "A man in Tunis once, before your father."

Now, her mother is gone. On the kitchen table, one object remains: a deep blue Tunisian bowl, cracked down the middle and painstakingly mended with a seam of pure gold.

Kintsugi. The Japanese art of repairing the broken with gold. Her mother's final message.

What does it mean? And who was the man in Tunis?

To find the answer, Nadia must travel back to the white walls and blue doors of her mother's childhood, unearth a forbidden love story hidden since 1993, and confront the choice that shattered two families—one in France, one in Tunisia.

Between Two Autumns is Book Two of the Between Two Shores saga. A poignant, atmospheric literary novel about mothers and daughters, identity, and how the most beautiful things are the ones we mend, not the ones we never break.

For readers who love Kristin Hannah, Leila Slimani, and stories that stay with you long after the last page.

Family secrets. A forbidden love. A bowl that holds a lifetime.