...Terrified she flees to the bathroom and locks herself in. She can hardly run out into the street with a short nightie and no pants on. Creeping downstairs she finds the young man making breakfast and precisely how does he know boiled eggs are her favourite?

The handsome stranger is kind, not at all threatening and seems intent on making Frances’ life easier. It isn’t long before she is in love and having a great time.

Frances isn’t overly endowed with family. Her two selfish brothers live in Australia but their sons are fond of their English auntie and correspond with her by email. Now Angelo is on the scene it seems her life is complete.

But there are links that connect Frances’ miserable childhood to her new found happiness. Never far away is the memory of Frances’ strange, artistic mother, Rachel and the events of a long-ago Cornish summer that changed the lives of all the family, even the young Aussie boys.