Successful novelist Prudence Dudley and her aunt take a cottage in the Lake District whilst she attempts recovery from an emotional collapse. There she meets hostile and arrogant Davie McVeigh and his family and gets drawn into their turbulent past. The ever present and powerful housekeeper holds the clues to a bizarre series of relationships which are conveniently revealed towards the completion of this rather trite story. ( )

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An intense emotional conflict plunges successful novelist Prudence Dudley into a near collapse and she goes to recuperate in a cottage in the Lake District. There she meets hostile and arrogant Davie McVeigh and gets drawn into his turbulent past, discovering that it was as unhappy as her own. ( )