unaware that they are related. She falls in love with a young fisherman named Peter, but her love for painting and rumours about her friendship with a French painter, separates them. They come together again at the end, and Peter proposes. She accepts but says she wants to carry on learning to paint. She is also reunited with her father, who was really the man she thought was her uncle. References External links Review by Philip Ardagh, from The Guardian 2008 novels Novels set in Denmark Novels set in Lincolnshire Fiction set in 1885