What the blurb on the back says...

"Tom Johnson. Even now, after all these years, she couldn't think about Tom Johnson with anything approaching equanimity. He was the first love of her life, an American Rhodes Scholar who was going to conquer the world. She adored his uncomplicated outlook on life, his unbridled optimism and his sophisticated humour. Tom was such a refeshing change, so different from any man she had met before or since.

Eighteen years ago, Tom Johnson returned to California from Oxford and broke Julia's heart. Mike Ramsey picked up the pieces, but a family tragedy has left their marriage slowly disintegrating to the point where they can hardly bear to touch one another.

Mike takes refuge on the golf course with their teenage son; Julia in fantasies of her lost lover. Then she learns that Tom is divorced and still thinking about her, and an old friend gives her Tom's card. A work trip to San Francisco will take her just fifty miles from his vineyard in the Napa Valley, but should she risk the consequences of seeking him out?"

What I thought of it...

When I first read about this book, I thought what a wonderful concept it was, a woman meeting up with her first love again. This book is very readable but I feel it dragged on towards the end and I couldn't wait to finish it. It has a good twist at the end, though, which made up for the boring bits.