To newly separated Anna, holidaying in Devon with her seven-year-old son, the exquisite windsurfer winging across the waves on the river near their cottage represents all that is young, strong and free. In a nearby nursing home Anna's mother is dying of cancer, calmly accepting impending death with a dignity her daughter cannot begin to understand.Faced with the dilemma of many conflicting emotions ÂÂ guilt, grief, nostalgia and an increasing infatuation with the teenage windsurfer ÂÂ Anna struggles to come to terms with her lifeÂ
