Within weeks letters would be burned, pages torn. Promises would be broken and hearts betrayed.  But for now the countryside languished, golden and fading…  Cecily Chadwick is idling away the long, hot summer of 1911 when a myste...

DIVClarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer- and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter ...