This novel is from an ever-popular library author.On the death of her twin brother David, divorcee Gillian Sinclair inherits not only Hunter's Lodge, a country hotel, but also a request that she involve his fiancee, Helen. Gillian is a career woman in London, bringing up her young daughter Debbie alone, a far cry from learning to build on what David has started. But she is resolved not to fail him - no easy task in 1948, restricted by shortages.At Hunter's Lodge the stables are in the charge of Irish Canadian Mike Trelawney, and with him she follows David's dream of catering for those Helen disparagingly refers to as 'horsy people'. As for her ex-husband, for seven years Gillian has told herself he is out of her life and out of her mind. Yet when he reappears suddenly, surely it is not just for Debbie's sake she is prepared to take Stephen back?...The stage seems set for a happy future, but life's pattern is made up of many strands; some run smoothly, some become tangled; some knit together so firmly that nothing can hold them apart.