At 16 Sophie fell in love, nothing out of the ordinary about that. She had finished her first year examinations at school and had ceased to be a young girl. This summer in Italy would mark the beginning of her adult life. And so it did, because Rafael fell in love with her.

Life was wonderful for a time but it didn't last. There were those who would do anything to break up the pair and eventually they succeeded.

After the divorce Sophie built a new life for herself working in Scotland 's new Parliament whilst Rafael, a famous pianist, travelled the world. One man after another tried to win Sophie but she couldn't forget the good times despite the raw hurt.

Sophie had sworn never to go back to Tuscany where everything had been so wonderful and so painful, but when her younger sister pleaded with her to be at her wedding, Sophie knew she had to bury her feelings, put on a brave face and show the world that she had moved on from all the nastiness. What she wasn't prepared for was her ex-husband playing at the wedding.

And the nastiness was not over. The perpetrators followed her in Tuscany and even when she returned to Scotland .

The present is related to the past and what seems inexplicable is rooted in what has gone before.

And, as always in her books, Eileen Ramsay paints such vivid pictures, this time of Tuscany , that the reader is there, under the brilliant sky, beside the deep blue sea, feeling the hot sun on her skin.