When compassion turns to fear ...
Lois Hunter is well-off, happily married; she has a nice home, two well-adjusted sons, and lives in a beautiful part of the country. Husband Ken, a City banker, lives in London during the week and comes home at weekends. Both are pillars of the community, into good causes and local activities. A privileged, satisfying, richly rewarding life one might think.
Why then, with so much going for her, does Lois develop an attachment to a beggar she sees outside a supermarket? However, he is not your usual vagrant and there is something about Oliver and his two puppies sitting on the pavement on a cold October afternoon that touches her heart. She resolves to do all she can to help him despite the protestations of Ken and her sister Wendy.
Shortly after they meet, Oliver who is very secretive about his past, disappears, only to re-emerge six months later without any explanation. He resumes his place in front of the supermarket where he is beaten up by thugs. Fortunately, he is rescued at the last minute by Lois. Once again he becomes the object of her solicitude because of his injuries, but this time she invites him to stay on their land.
All this not unnaturally produces strain between Lois and Ken, and Wendy, too, is critical of her sister's philanthropy - until she meets Oliver and, in turn, and as irrationally, becomes as obsessed by this mysterious stranger as Lois.
Genre: General Fiction
Lois Hunter is well-off, happily married; she has a nice home, two well-adjusted sons, and lives in a beautiful part of the country. Husband Ken, a City banker, lives in London during the week and comes home at weekends. Both are pillars of the community, into good causes and local activities. A privileged, satisfying, richly rewarding life one might think.
Why then, with so much going for her, does Lois develop an attachment to a beggar she sees outside a supermarket? However, he is not your usual vagrant and there is something about Oliver and his two puppies sitting on the pavement on a cold October afternoon that touches her heart. She resolves to do all she can to help him despite the protestations of Ken and her sister Wendy.
Shortly after they meet, Oliver who is very secretive about his past, disappears, only to re-emerge six months later without any explanation. He resumes his place in front of the supermarket where he is beaten up by thugs. Fortunately, he is rescued at the last minute by Lois. Once again he becomes the object of her solicitude because of his injuries, but this time she invites him to stay on their land.
All this not unnaturally produces strain between Lois and Ken, and Wendy, too, is critical of her sister's philanthropy - until she meets Oliver and, in turn, and as irrationally, becomes as obsessed by this mysterious stranger as Lois.
Genre: General Fiction
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