The Leaping Flame

She wasn't sad. Sad was the wrong word. Sadness did not capture the pain when a whole life had collapsed. Not sad. But broken, dazed and utterly forsaken even for misery. Home again after five years, in her quiet ancestral home in wartime England, Mona's past comes back to her in poignant, agonizing memories, memories of an ecstatic, clandestine love affair. Despite her unhappiness, Mona affec...