Introduction

The year is 1969 and Elara recalls her younger, more turbulent years at St. Catherine's, a private all-girls school in the heart of Hampshire, England. When she was eleven and she stumbled into a quiet meadow nestled in the surrounding forest. When she was twelve and she met Sam, a charming boy with sun spun hair and spring green eyes from Ravensworth, the neighbouring all-boys school. When she was thirteen and it was just Sam and Elara in the meadow, secret meetings that made her time at St. Catherine's less lonely. When she was fourteen and it was no longer Sam and Elara, it was Sam and Elara and Rosemary. When life became a little more complicated and heartbreaking after that.