The Changing Tide

The Pembroke coast was a pleasant place for a late holiday, but Nicola's thoughts were all on returning to her librarian's job in Surrey and, very soon, getting married to Laurie Barnwood, her secure childhood sweetheart. Suddenly, one letter from Laurie changed everything. Without her realising it, her father's recent remarriage had introduced new currents of possessive jealousy into the family and Laurie himself is going to marry Nicola's pretty clinging young step-sister. To run from a world which had once seemed so contentedly settled and now has no place for her, Nicola is happy to…