Like his father before him, Orlando chooses a bride whose sudden arrival totallydisrputs the lives of those closest to him; he marries Lindy on a whim and brings her to the house where he spent his childhood. She is obsessed with her career and is quite different form the other women who feel they have a claim tohim - his godmother Victoria, who brought him up, and his childhoob friend Rose, who has always worshipped him. But Lindy must contend with the ghost of Orando's mother, whose hold over them all is hidden in the pages of the visitor's book...