Charlotte inexplicably finished with Felix on her last day at Lady Margaret's College, Oxford. They had been inseparable for their last two years, and even now, seventeen years later, Felix still has no idea why she did this to him; to them? Why she so suddenly 'quit him'. Back then he believed their love was special and forever. Devastated, he could make absolutely no sense of it. It took him over a year and an internship with Christopher Hitchens in New York, two girlfriends and the wise words of a friend to get over her. Felix writes his weekly column for The Sunday Times and is happily married with two children. As far as he knows Charlotte is still teaching French and Spanish at Hong Kong University. Now, unexpectedly she is back in the country, all these years on and wants to meet up with him again-" but why? ."