From the author of the number one international bestseller `The History of Bees`, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in only a sailboat. She is haunted by the loss of the love of her life, and is driven by a singular and all-consuming mission to make it back to him.In 2041, David flees with his young daughter, Lou, from a war-torn Southern Europe plagued by drought. They have been separated from their rest of their family and are on a desperate search to reunite with them once again, when they find Signe`s abandoned sailboat in a parched French garden, miles away from the nearest shore. As David and Lou discover personal effects from Signe`s travels, their journey of survival and hope weaves together with Signe`s, forming a heartbreaking, inspiring story about the power of nature and the human spirit in this second novel from the author of the ”spectacular and deeply moving” `The History of Bees`.