Publisher's Synopsis
England, 1926. Sixteen-year-old orphan Jackie Hunt knows what she wants - to marry Wilhelm Furtmueller, and to be an artist. When Wilhelm and his family go back to his native Germany she has no doubt he will return to her, but four years later her dreams are in ruins. Jackie finds a post as companion to Richard Bennett's blind mother, Verity, on her Gloucestershire fruit farm, but when Verity's husband acts strangely Jackie begins to suspect he is not as loving and faithful as he appears. Taciturn Richard has fallen for her, but Jackie cannot forget her all-consuming love for Wilhelm...
