Her third novel, the story of a woman who leaves England for the Greek islands in order to recapture her passion for painting. 'Grace loved these expeditions. The landscape of Dalmatia was a perpetually renewed enchantment - the grace of olive trees, the patches of bright flowers, goats browsing among ruins, the dark flame-like shapes of cypresses round some monastery - and for a background, always, that delicate opalescent blue of the sea and the shores of bays and islands.' - cover.