A woman passionately in love, a man torn between conflicting feelings, both determined to make no more mistakes: this true story of a controversial romance unfolding through summer and autumn a decade ago in an English township and its environs is told with tenderness, passion, thoughtfulness and humour. Whether dwelling on intimate scenes enhanced by wine and music or describing notable excursions and social occasions, this distillation of diaries written at the time may offer everyone who has ever been in love poignant and pleasant moments of recognition and remembrance. But this is a story that also provokes. Was he right or was she? Were they both in the wrong? What else could they have done? Names have been changed.