Author(s): Melvyn Bragg

World fiction

It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation! Nothing should have come of it.

A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.