Madeleine and Ellis Hyde have led privileged lives in the upper crust until a night of drunken revelry brings them disgrace. Colonel Hyde, who is embarrassed by his 4F son's lack of military service in the war, cuts them off financially and evicts them from his home. Ellis concocts a scheme to get back on his parent's good side by proving the existence of the Loch Ness monster, something that his father failed at years before. Maddie is dragged along on the ill-conceived expedition and finds herself living in a Scottish Inn, suffering through rationing and air raids while her arrogant husband's behavior becomes reprehensible from alcohol and drugs. In the process she comes to love the country and it's people while trying to find a way to end her marriage. Gruen has again written a compelling historical novel that captures the imagination. My only problem with it is I wished Maddie had kicked her awful husband to the curb earlier in the story.
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