About the book: 2008 / This book is about love. Love cannot be explained. You can talk about it. The heroine of the story, Maude Latham, told her love story, written in a leisurely, heartfelt language. Love for a real man, the best person in the world, Stephen Kendall. She is a student, he is a professor at Oxford University. She is free as the wind, he is married. The war separated them at Waterloo Station and it seemed to them that they had lost each other forever.