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<b>When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls Helen, Jane and Rosalie are particularly upset. Gerald Harcourt was a distant figure in their lives and he is easily forgotten.</b> <br> <br>The loss of the family’s income, however, is not something so easily overcome. <br> <br>When their mother Anna discovers that they have been left penniless, she decides to move them out of London and back her hometown in Scotland. <br> <br>Helen, the demanding and selfish eldest sister, decamps almost immediately to Edinburgh in search of the excitement and refinement Ryddelton cannot offer. <br> <br>Rosalie, having always lived in her more beautiful eldest sister’s shadow, begins to come into her own. <br> <br>And Jane, our narrator, finds an education she could never have gotten at Oxford in her work as a secretary for Mrs Millard, an eccentric biographer currently residing in the village. <br> <br>Anna's daughters seem to be settling down to their new life until Ronnie, a tall, broad-shouldered scientist, steps into their lives... <br> <br><h2>Praise for D E Stevenson:</h2> <br><b>'Consistently charming’ - <em>The Times</em> <br> <br>D. E. Stevenson</b> was a Scottish author of more than 40 light romantic novels. Her father was the lighthouse engineer David Alan Stevenson, first cousin to the author Robert Louis Stevenson.
