Evacuated form Blitz-battered London, Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the O'Connor family in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, which endures over twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals . . .

With warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear apart - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.