Accomplice of love (by Titia Sutherland)

(Amazon UK link) It’s a long time since I read the novels by Titia Sutherland, which I acquired close to twenty-five years ago. It’s a pity her books were out of print even then, as her writing was excellent. She wrote just six books in all, with interesting, believable characters and a style of expression that reminds me, on occasion, of Susan Howatch. 
It’s over twenty years since I read ‘Accomplice of love’. So, inevitably, I had forgotten everything about it. And it has a slightly unusual form...