At Hawthorn Time Susan Hill passionate patriot Caroline and her

passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon

and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office

very quickly

Yet all of that is about to change

At Hawthorn Time Susan Hill passionate patriot Caroline and herFour thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins. Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart.