Goudges singular gift is the depth and insight she brings to her characters.
Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. 300 pp.
