In 1939, as the shadows of war gather over Europe, property developer Maurice Waldenstein moves his family from their large and desirable home in London's Holland Park, to rural Herefordshire, where his precious daughter Ginny, the apple of Maurice's eye, dreams of becoming a ballerina. The war changes their lives dramatically however, and Ginny, now an attractive young woman, abandons her dependable fiance and seeks an escape route of her own, flying out to join her girl friends in vibrant, sophisticated, go-getting Montreal. Taking a job in a top-notch advertising firm, Ginny is soon being wined, dined and a whole lot more - enjoying heady sexual adventures with handsome, glamorous executives and doctors. She finds however that the road to romance is not a straight one, men are not always to be trusted, and that passion can sometimes come at a very high price. As her emotional entanglements become ever more complicated, Ginny is faced with a series of increasingly difficult choices. The post-war plot takes place in London, Montreal, New York and Florida. Circles In A Spiral contains intimate, uninhibited descriptions of sexual pleasure and is an arousing, suspenseful, and ultimately heart-warming story of one woman's quest for love, passion and fulfillment - and of her struggle to resolve all three. Circles in a Spiral won a Prize in Good Housekeeping Magazine's New Writing Competition, for which over 7,000 entries were received. The author's prize-winning extract was published on the magazine's website."