When Candida Wilston arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. What can happen, at her age, to change her fortunes?
When Candida starts writing her diary, she expects that she will fill it with the small events with which she pads out her empty life, but she has always had a secret belief that despite all she is a lucky person. And she is right, in a sense, for when an unexpected windfall brings her sudden riches, her horizons broaden.
Gathering together six travelling companions Candida maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunis, Naples and Pompeii. Finally, she has realised that one can make anything happen, if one has the nerve . . .
