Evacuated from Blitz-battered London shy & genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O' Connors in Kilgarret Ireland It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth & Aisling O' Connor a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change & chaos joy & sorrow soaring dreams & searing betrayals Writing with warmth wit & great compassion Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives & loves of two women bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder
- not even the man who threatened to come between them forever