Falling - Elizabeth Jane Howard

Henry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age.a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm.

Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that yearns to be cared for once more.

It is this part that Henry sees, and with dedicated and calculated patience he works at her defences. So it is that despite all attempts to resist his attentions, Daisy finds herself falling under Henrys spelle