You and You Only

Jane's eccentric cartoonist boyfriend has inexplicably disappeared in Java the political situation there in the 1970's is volatile. Back home in Hereford, Jane is filled with remorse in the knowledge that she should have gone with him but at the last minute backed out. If only she had had the courage!

And then she finds Florence Chave's diary written 75 years ago. Flo, somewhat to the dismay of her family, gets engaged to a penniless, Anglo-Indian doctor who works in the local lunatic asylum.

As the months drag on with no news of Hugh, Jane desperately tries to distract herself by getting to know Flo and her world of the 1890s through her diary. Under the influence of the goahead Flo, Jane's own social life begins to blossom, and she starts to find her courage.

Jane's diary Wednesday 28th June 1972

The Daily Sketch is re-running some of Hugh's old Klambi cartoons. There's a little column saying he is still missing. It looks horribly like an obituary. Flo says her parents are not elated about her engagement. Is it because they are going to lose the daughter who will care for them in old age? Somehow, they don't strike me as that sort. Must have taken a lot of guts in those days to get engaged to a man your parents disapproved of.

Dettagli