The book was a fact-based fiction. I was spellbound from the opening page and did not want to put the book down. The main character, Christina, was a compelling and complex woman who had endured many hardships and heartaches. Her opportunity for love came during a visit from a summer visitor who spent four summers making promises that they would be together. His sudden absence from their regular habit of correspondence was his way of removing himself from her life. She spent the rest of her life grieving the loss of love and becoming bitter in many ways. The book covered her feelings and her sense of loss in detail. I would recommend this book to any book club.