It's the summer, two years after the ending of World War Two and John Harper and his girlfriend Jill are driving toward the coastal town of Brighton to participate in lectures at Brighton Art College.
Without any warning a mysterious cloud of blackness rolls in from the English Channel and envelops them.
It is a gravity field and Jill finds herself alone, thrust back 60 years to the year 1887.
Confused, frightened and utterly alone, Jill realises that she must try, somehow, to make a new life for herself in the midst of Victorian England.
Desperate to return to her own time, Jill must cope with living in a more formal and stricter society, mindful of the fact that should she let slip the truth of from whence she had come she risked incarceration in one of the lunatic asylums.
A wife of a local church minister befriends her and she manages to struggle to retain her sanity.
Eventually Jill meets a landowner called Mr Gregson. He is handsome and not without financial means and, despite the fact that Mr Gregson wants her hand in marriage, she cannot help feeling increasingly drawn to him.
When she finally accepts that she is forever trapped in a time before her own, has no way of effecting a return to 1947 and of being reunited with John, she decides to accede to his proposal of marriage.
But suddenly, when she has apparently accepted her destiny, the opportunity to return to 1947 and John, her first love, comes her way.
What does she do? Stay in the Victorian era and marry Mr Gregson? Or make the return to 1947 and a possible life with John?
It's a moving novel and a very compelling and intelligent use of the time traveller theme.
It's published by Matador at £8.99. (Note: by ordering direct there is a saving of £1.00 https://www.troubador.co.uk.)
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