The Swallow and the Hummingbird

THE SWALLOW AND THE HUMMINGBIRD When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a reassuring continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has returned a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. Unable to settle back into the sleepy country routine, George resolves to spend a year on the family farm in Argentina, and. despite her disappointment, Rita promises to wait for him. Before he has even land on Argentina soil, George has fallen in love with someone else, a woman who seems to soothe his troubled soul. He marries Susan even though he knows it will break Rita's heart and, thousands of miles away, can avoid the consequences of his decision. When his father dies, George returns to Fragnal Point to find he must revisit the past. Reawakened by his abiding love of the Devon countryside, memories of that youthful innocence return and George finds himself tempted by another agonizing choice.