Publisher's Synopsis
'Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should become an eccentric.'
Rachel Cameron is a shy, retiring schoolmistress, tethered to her overbearing invalid mother. Thirty-four and unmarried, she feels herself edging towards a lonely spinsterhood. But then she falls in love for the first time, and embarks upon an affair that will change her life in unforeseen ways.
"An almost perfect book" Margaret Atwood
