From the book cover:
"In 1933, we meet Rebecca the heroine of The Ballad and the Source - but in a different world, on many levels. Betrayed by her married lover, Rebecca arrives alone at a small Caribbean island. Here she meets the splendidly eccentric members of the British expatriate colony, and then the former ace pilot Johnny, crippled now, a misanthropic recluse in his beach hut: for both of them their passionate love affair demonstrates the powerful force love can be. Here too she encounters voices from the past, and the vibrant spirit of Mrs Jardine - voices which remind Rebecca of the girl she was and the woman she could become."