An Ocean Apart (by Robin Pilcher)

I discovered Robin Pilcher over twenty years ago; his mother was the better-known late Rosamunde Pilcher, so I was intrigued - and absolutely loved his first novel ‘An Ocean Apart’.  I re-read it in 2017, and have just finished reading it for the third time. Happily I had forgotten most of the storyline (other than the bare bones of the plot) and quickly found myself engrossed once more.

It’s quite a long novel, and it features a man called David who must be around forty. He is quite depressed a...