"An English painter, known as K, has returned from a hermit-like existence in Chile to attend the wedding of a girl he once loved to the point of obsession. He arrives at the English country church to find it empty and silent. The wedding has been postponed. He drives back to his hotel - a place he'd visited many years before - opens a bottle of champagne and with it, a door to the past." "When K first saw Claudia fourteen years earlier, he fell instantly and dangerously in love. But K was already married and Claudia twenty four years younger than him and still at school. Perhaps it was no surprise that their love proved to be so destructive and ultimately tragic. Now K returns to find Claudia on the verge of a very different future. But the past cannot be so easily banished. As they are inexorably drawn towards each other, long unanswered questions surface."--BOOK JACKET.