Anne Douglas

1935, Edinburgh. Lindy Gillian is determined to look on the bright side in spite of the Depression. She works for her stepmother at Murchie's Provisions and has the attentions of Neil, a young writer whom she has known for years. But when handsome Roderick Connor walks into the shop one day, Lindy's world is turned upside down.

1925. Attractive and strong-willed twenty-three-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir and take up a vacancy at Dr Lorne's fashionable spa, where she is reunited with her handsome brother, Boyd. Revelling in her new role and being close to Boyd, all seems well for Isla and the Scott family.