The Pink Pepper Tree — Muriel Bolger

June Cusack is refusing to attend her husband Lorcan's funeral and everyone around her is wondering why: what kind of wife won't say goodbye to her husband of seven years?
Her reasons for not attending the funeral will remain her secret, however. She has other secrets too - ones she shared with her ex-partner Peter, who she once thought of as the love of her life. Until their plans for the future fell apart.
Now, she can't stop thinking about Peter - their dreams, their happiness - and comes to wonder what might have been. Could it be that he has spent their years apart thinking the same thing? Only time will tell, and a chance meeting that reveals to June that, just maybe, fate is giving them a second chance...