The Dreaming Stones

In the 2nd century AD, Claudia leaves her comfortable, happy home in Rome to travel to Britain to join her new husband, Publius, a much older man and Commander of the British garrison, close by Hadrian's Wall. As a new bride and an inexperienced wife of a garrison Commander, she feels the loneliness and the uncertainties very deeply, and is sustained only by the deep love she feels for her taciturn and undemonstrative husband. Many centuries later, a former top model and acknowledged beauty, Miranda, becomes the third wife of Lord Freddie Stratton, a man who is many years her senior but who loves her deeply. Their magnificent house, Ladycross, is centuries old and is built on the exact position of the Ladycross which was built by Publius and Claudia, and is the venue of an annual, world famous Rock concert. A close neighbour,Bobbie Govan, is a former schoolmate of Miranda and moves into a small cottage on the Ladycross estate.There are three separate love stories happening simultaneously...Claudia in the 2nd century, Miranda in the present day and Bobbie, also in the present day but whose love story is more with her newly found daughter and grandson. The Dreaming Stones was a wonderful read with just enough other worldliness to lift it above the ordinary and to reaffirm how magical it must be to be living in a country where every patch of ground has had previous occupants who lived their lives for centuries before us.