Alan Desland, who feels himself to be an ordinary and unremarkable man, falls passionately in love with the beautiful but mysterious German stenographer, Karin, who is sent to assist him during a business trip to Denmark. To his astounded joy, she returns his love – but their courtship and marriage will shake his life to its very foundations and test him to the limits of sanity. About the Author Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is an English novelist, author of Watership Down, Shardik, Maia, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, Tales from Watership Down and many other books. When Watership Down, his first novel, was finally published, after many rejections, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1972. To date it has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into many languages, including Cherokee and Chinese. Richard’s goal is to tell a good story, ideally one so good you can’t put it down! Three of his novels, including The Girl in a Swing, have been filmed so far.