One Summer at Deer’s Leap

A present-day love story which springs from a tragic wartime romance …

It is the 1990s. Cassie Johns is a young, lovely writer on the threshold of success after a less-than-silver-spooned girlhood. Driving through the glorious countryside to a fancy-dress party in the Vale of Boland, she gives a lift to a mysteriously attractive young man wearing the uniform of an RAF pilot: ready for the party Cassie assumes. But in the evening there is no sign of the airman.

Cassie – hitherto rational, sceptical, a woman of her times – becomes obsessed by Jack Hunter, a pilot whose plane crashed in 1944, but whose long-ago love for a girl at Deer’s Leap makes him unable to rest in peace. Cassie’s love for the dead hero takes her into an unknown war-torn past, where old passion burns and becomes entwined with new.

Reviews

Praise for Elizabeth Elgin’s previous novels:

‘Unforgettable characters.’
Daily Express

‘A poignant, powerful saga that will stay in your memory long after you’ve read it.’
Woman & Home

‘Rich and vibrant blockbuster of a novel, brimming with drama and romance.’
Manchester Evening News

About the author

Elizabeth Elgin served in the WRNS during the Second World War and met her husband on board a submarine depot ship. A keen gardener, she has two daughters and five grandsons.