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Eliza and Margot, now in their fifties, have been friends since they met during the first year of medical school.
Eliza, married to Caroline, a brilliant surgeon, and mother to their 16-year-old son Martin, is forced to rethink her life when Caroline accepts an invitation to work for a year at a new hospital in Sydney. As if the distance isn't challenging enough on its own, fate decides to put her to the test.
Margot is the medical director at BioXN, a large pharmaceutical company, and is the first black woman to hold the role. Despite her success, Margot lives torn between being her authentic self and the persona imposed on her to succeed in a world dominated by conservative men. The need to find someone to replace her personal assistant who is retiring brings her face to face with Astrid, a 29-year-old woman who will test her ability to hide from life and love.
When Margot's boss told her she would be hosting Stephanie, an Italian infectious disease specialist, to help with the process of launching a new drug, Margot thought she would be a prima donna. She couldn't have been more wrong, but what she could never have suspected was that Stephanie and her friend Eliza had met more than 20 years ago on a vacation in Sardinia.
Eliza reunites with Stephanie, and with her, the fantasies lost in her imagination. Can the past come back to life with the same flavor as before?
This book is a story that could be any of ours - an everyday life filled with passions and anxieties, contradictory feelings and difficult choices - that leads us to question whether it is possible to have it all.