I loved this book. I kept picturing it as a show on PBS from BBC. The author did a great job of describing the village, the seaside, the houses and the golf club. I could picture it all. Really would love to see this as a show or a movie. The costumes would be beautiful.

I thought the Major was a wonderful, complex character who always tries to do what is right and honorable. His neighbor, Mrs. Ali, just wants a little cottage where she could read and dream. Together they form an unlikely friendship that grows and changes much like the village around them.