Boy meets girl but in this tale, the heroine, Alice, falls for a youth, Robbie, some years her junior. Alice is in the stages of recognising special abilities possessed by herself and her twin brother Paul, and of coming to realisation of her true nature, which sets her and Paul aside from others. A romance in the true sense, where love proceeds in the face of adversity, and one which presents challenges to convention. The tale is set in England in the 1960s and early 1970s.