This story deals with further episodes in the lives of John and Gail Siberry, the young married couple of whom the author has written in an earlier novel - Star To My Barque.
It is a story of a well-adjusted marriage that nudges to failure through the wife's desire to stay with her pleasant village life where she can play the young Lady Bountiful and then is jerked to re-appraisal by an intrusion from the past. The setting moves from a small Irish village to the Cotswold country. Major incidents include a serious accident with its prolonged effects, and quite an involved affair of mistaken identity which causes much worry and misunderstanding until the problem is eventually solved.