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 . . .