In North Devon, where the rivers Taw & Torridge converge & run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church
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Judith Hearne is a single women of modest means, a middle-aged Catholic spinster who teaches piano to a handful of students. Her only social activity is tea with the O' Neill family, who secretly dread her weekly visits. But when she moves into yet another Belfast bedsit, her lonely existence appears to be at an end. Here she meets the lively & debonair James Madden, recently returned from New York. Charmed by what she sees as his amorous pursuit of her, Judith begins to dream of a brighter future
- is she too late for love, or dare she let herself hope?