Marina Meredith goes to Cornwall to heal after her daughter's death, becomes attracted to a charismatic actor living there, and flees back home, hoping to revive her troubled marriage
Jean was born in Lancashire and educated in Manchester. She has written many novels and short stories for magazines and collections, several of which have been adapted for radio and television. She has lived for more than twenty years in a cottage in Cornwall, England, with her husband.
Difficult to get in to but stuck with it. Interesting twists kept you interested. An older style of writing (published 1990) but captured the essence of the 1970s in the UK.