The ultimate romantic story, not only because of the love story but far more - the country landscape of Cornwall and its creeks and coast and inlets that is almost another character, the heroine who is not waiting vapidly for someone to come and sweep her off, but is restless and sharp of wit and strong of will and determined in protecting those she loves, the meeting of two kindred spirits and the blissful interval of carefree togetherness of camaraderie, and then the dealing with danger as more than sport - and finally the dilemma, as always ....
Quintessential romance in every sense of the word, haunting in all its beauty. One almost feels the landscape with the creek and the woods capturing one's spirit.