Robin Pilcher, bestselling author of t returns readers to contemporary Scotland, where the "Simple" Life has grown somewhat more complicated, but the shortest distance between lonely hearts will always be love. Sometimes...Robin Pilcher, bestselling author of t returns readers to contemporary Scotland, where the "Simple" Life has grown somewhat more complicated, but the shortest distance between lonely hearts will always be love. Sometimes the hardest thing in life. Liz dewhurst has witnessed quite a bit in her thirty-seven years: the birth of her son, the death of her mother, the waxing and waning days on the farm where she was raised.the sight of her husband in another woman's arms.