<DIV><DIV><B>A <I>New York Times Book Review</I> Editors’ Choice </B></P><P>In the spring of 1950, Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion in the English countryside to nurse the elderly Edith Hart. There, Coral meets Hart House’s odd inhabitants: Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, her charge’s war-ravaged son. When a child’s game goes violently awry in the nearby woods, a great shadow---love, perhaps---descends upon its residents. Other seemingly random events---a torn dress, a missing ring, a lost letter---propel Coral and Clement precipitously into the mysterious thicket of marriage.<BR><BR>Written with his unique sense of wit and empathy, Peter Cameron’s brilliant novel is a stunning exploration of how need and desire can blossom into love---and just as quickly transform into something less categorical.<BR></DIV></DIV>