Wild Winds — Mair Unsworth

Running away from her father's mounting madness, Nona Tallarn takes shelter in an isolated mountain cottage---only to find it already inhabited by a young medical student, Julian. In Julian she finds all the gentle qualities and charms a girl could desire...but his mother finds Nona most undesirable, and has plans for him to marry another woman.

A Welsh girl falls in love with a Londoner whose family frowns on her country ways.

Running away from her father's mounting madness. Nona Tallarn takes shelter in an isolated mountain cottage--only to find it already inhabited by a young medical student, Julian Herriard. In Julian she finds all the gentle qualities and charms a girl could desire...but his mother finds Nona most undesirable, and has plans for him to marry another woman.
Julian takes Nona to London, where she receives a mysterious summons to visit the deathbed of a total stranger. It is this stranger who sloves the enigma of her family's past--and gives Nona the strength to find happiness in the future.