Picture this. It’s dawn on a September day in 1954. A house stands on the outskirts of Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England. A little girl emerges from the house into the rose garden. The air is different than any she has ever previously breathed. It makes her feel wildly alive! Everything is covered in heavy dew. As the sunlight peaks over the horizon, it strikes each dewdrop making them shimmer. The little girl’s heart swells as though it might burst. This is the most beautiful place and time she has ever encountered in her brief eight years.

Unbeknownst to her, she is starting one of the greatest love affairs of her life. She will relive this moment hundreds of times, over the following decades. The memory will never fade and neither will her passion for England.