About the book: 2011 / Verena Stainton decides to throw a ball on the occasion of her daughter’s coming of age. There will be many guests, and this gives the author the opportunity to tell the story of each of them. Not without family secrets... In one of her most popular novels, set in picturesque Scotland, the famous English writer Rosamund Pilcher again appears as a master of landscape and a subtle connoisseur of the human soul.