When Nurse Joanna Merivale went to Ireland to nurse Roger Carnehill, it was at first just another job to her. But in that job her first thought was to give of her best-something that looked like being impossible in the household full of emotional problems in which she found herself. There was her patient, cruelly frustrated by his accident; young Shuan, who was bitterly jealous of Joanna's skill in handling Roger; Magda, mocking and sophisticated, and René, generous and unselfish. And to add to all these difficulties, Joanna soon found that her own emotions were to be involved as deeply as everyone else's