About the book: 2005 / What do the beautiful, sparkling humor, joy and energy Flora Aylesbury and the gloomy, prim, unsmiling Michael Reston have in common?.. It would seem that Nothing. And yet, Michael, without wanting it, immediately falls under the sparkling charm of the girl, and she, too, does not remain indifferent to the manly beauty of Reston. Will Michael be able to give up freedom and loneliness, which he has elevated to the principle of his life, for the sake of love?..