Deserted by her flighty mother at the age of six, and unable to connect with her brutally successful father, Eleanor Nelson hopes she will find some kind of security - possibly even love - amid Oxford's dreaming spires when she begins her university career. It is 1972, the May Ball is looming, and Eleanor asks her old friend, Hugo, to accompany her. The party goes well, but as the summer holidays begin Eleanor realises an awful truth - that one night of passion has left her with a lasting legacy...
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Eleanor finds herself pregnant by an old friend, Hugo, while at Oxford. The couple marry and settle in Brazil where Eleanor is tempted into a passionate affair with a handsome Brazilian. She realizes too late how important her husband and child are to her.
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