With her family in Singapore, 14-year-old Judith Dunbar is left with the loneliness of life in an English boarding school. At St. Ursula's Judith makes a lifelong friend in the devil-may-care Loveday Carey-Lewis, who invites her home for the weekend. One glimpse at Nancherrow and the entire Carey-Lewis family, and it is love at first site. Here, for the next few glorious years, Judith finds a home full of the laughter, love and comfort a maturing young woman needs. But with the coming of World War II and a failed love affair, Judith's enchanted life at Nancherrow soon proves too good to be true.moreless