WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BILLY SHEARS?

by Davis Bunn

One handstand.

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That's all it took.

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And Lucy Pitcher spun William Shearwater's world upside down.

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Fifty years on, 'Shears' is a squeaky-clean Anglican chaplain, nursing memories of a lost and secret love. He has never met English teacher Sophie Daggert, recently bereaved and on a quest to trace her natural parents. But through a mesmerizing series of twists and turns, Sophie and Shears are brought together in a shocking journey of self-discovery, with 1967's Summer of Love at the heart of it all.