A previously unpublished wartime memoir from the acclaimed author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear.

This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975. Jack, 49, and American, has walked out on his fast-lane corporate career and troubled marriage to return to his first love, painting. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, struggling to express his long-suppressed feeli[...]

As her marriage to an eminent and wealthy bachelor approaches, Kate Orme should feel nothing but bliss. Yet, when she learns of Denis' guilty secret she becomes painfully aware of her fiance's flawed morality. Determining that no child of hers should inherit such character traits, she does everythin[...]