The morning after her fiftieth birthday, Rosemary met Ben Morrison. Rosemary was smart, successful, self-possessed. Men didn't really play a great part in her lifestyle. Ben was thirty-three, relaxed, attractive, casual - and had once had an affair with Ella, Rosemary's daughter. On the face of it, they had nothing in common. So when Ben erupted into Rosemary's life, smashing her tranquillity with an untamed, passionate greed, she was unprepared for her destruction...
Jill Gascoine was born in south London. Educated at Tiffin Girl's School, she was taught acting, singing and dancing at Italia Conti, and joined the theatrical profession at the age of fifteen. She is well known for the television series The Gentle Touch and also starred in C.A.T.S. Eyes. She has two sons from her first marriage, and now lives with her second husband, actor Alfred Molina, in West Sussex and Los Angeles.