Mariana

by Susanna Kearsley

“It’s all rather like a circle, you know,” she went on, “life is. You start off in one place, and choose your path, and when you finish up you find you’re right back where you started from. And that’s what you’re doing now, with Mariana’s life. When you’ve gone all the way round, when you’ve closed the circle, then and only then will the purpose of your journey become clear to you.”