Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Her beloved childhood home - Admiral House, where she brought up her two sons and created a magnificent garden - is crumbling around her. She knows the time has come for her to take the decision to sell it. Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who left her heartbroken fifty years ago when he abandoned her without a word... Set in both the 40's and 50's and the present day.