'When Liz Norton became engaged to Humphrey Jardine, it was understood they could not marry for a year. And Liz's father, who could not imagine his daughter happily exchanging her country life, her beloved horses and the New Forest for the dust and heat of a Middle East 'dig', said gloomily tat a lot could happen in a year, A lot did - an awful lot - and this is the story of it.'
'When Liz Norton became engaged to Humphrey Jardine, it was understood they could not marry for a year. And Liz's father, who could not imagine his daughter happily exchanging her country life, her beloved horses and the New Forest for the dust and heat of a Middle East 'dig', said gloomily tat a lot could happen in a year, A lot did - an awful lot - and this is the story of it.'