**David Bosworth** is a penniless undergraduate at Oxford with a head full of dreams. **Penelope Lorrimer** is the pretty daughter of a wealthy Edinburgh family; they have plans for her, but their ambitions do not match hers. When they fall in love the odds are against them, but the opposition they encounter draws them closer than any love more easily won – and the bond between them is stronger,more durable than the one between mere friends and lovers…