Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A romantic family saga by this author who was born in Australia but living in Ireland when this was published. "From the day she turned sixteen and discovered the secret of her mother's past, Nicole Rainard's life was to be inextricably tied to a country and a house. The country was England. The house was Lynmara . . . life seems to draw Nicole there: from her poverty in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the thirties, to an education in Paris, through the glamour and excitement of London society before the war. . . and an inescapable love for a man that finally brings Nicole back to serve England during the war years and ultimately to claim the heritage that was always hers." Very uncommon as a hardcover first edition. 398 pp. Dust jacket illustration by William Maugham. ISBN: 0-405114044.