When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart - a world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another, as well as our joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings.

Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But Oliver was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were tools, and to suit his own purpose, he disappeared from Victoria's life.

Now, years later, Oliver is a widower standing at Victoria's doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. Though he had broken her heart once, Victoria couldn't refuse him. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland would become an odyssey of emotional discovery, where Victoria meets the new laird and finally finds her crushed spirit awakening.