Author Description

For Bobby Teape, Oporto, Portugal seems to promise a life of security and unlimited success. He is brash and capable, owner of an old, established port wine company and a noted member of the city's tremendously wealthy and influential British colony.But stability is hard to come buy. Bobby's young marriage is threatened by the appearance of a Portuguese son he never knew existed; a baby who reminds him of his secret past with Natalia.Bobby is not the only one who harbors secrets, though. As Ruth, his wife, tries to endure their uneasy marriage, she is haunted by the mistake that cost her the man she really loved. And then there is their daughter Stella, one of the most complex and fascinating heroines of modern literature. Stella proves to be a true child of the sixties - rebellious, brilliant, independent and sexually liberated. But neither sex with Edouardo nor marriage to Sam can save her from a fatal struggle with herself.