Elizabeth Stone has lived a small life until, after a brush with cancer, her horizons unexpectedly broaden. A respected academic, she stumbles on a subject that could make her masterpiece, which entails returning to the city where she was a student- and where the elusive Professor Hunt still lives.
Yet once back in the city she loves, Elizabeth’s memories return her to a time of loneliness and to an undeclared, overwhelming passion. As her rekindled friendship with Edward Hunt begins to unravel, she realises she is facing the biggest test of her life…
