Rich family saga of love, devotion, deceit and adultery. Josi Evans runs off with the local school mistress, Miriam leaving behind wealth and esteem to find a life of love and human contact.

Josi Evans has married into wealth through Rachel the daughter of a wealthy land owner. Having brought up son Tom and Catrinto young adulthood he decides, much to daughter Catrin's fury, to leave and follow his passion for life and love with Miriam, the local School mistress. When Edward, Tom's best friend from Oxford arrives and sweeps her off her feet she finds herself similarly compromised and must suffer the consequences.—Anon