When Nurse Claire Dale saw her boyfriend Chris kissing another woman, she knew that she could no longer bear to work at the same hospital as. Him. So the suggestion that she might like to become a district nurse at Charnworth, in Kent, was very welcome. One look at the village and the cottage she was to have convinced her that she had made the right decision. Claire had gone to Charnworth with the idea of not seeing Chris for a while, and his unexpected eruption into the village life she was settling into was the last thing she wanted.