When Maisie Shergold, art historian, meets Michael Curran, folk musician, on the platform of Paddington Station, she falls in love with him instantly. Ignoring the differences in their backgrounds, ages, and personal outlooks, she pursues the affair with a single-minded intensity that borders on obsession. Abandoning the safe routines that had previously defined her life, and against the advice of friends and family, Maisie opens her home and her...