Doctor's House — Dorothy Rivers

Susan Lindsay's life in Aberdeen with her prosaic stepbrother and his selfish wife was not an enviable one. Small wonder that when her sophisticated, prosperous friend Julia Dunholme suddenly offered her a post as governess in England she eagerly seized the chance to spread her wings and fly.

At first it seemed this venture had only brought her to a quiet, charming backwater, a world as uneventful in its way as the one she had left behind. But the little Suffolk town of Steeple Market had some surprises in store for Susan.

One of them was the attractive young Doctor Graham Ruthermuir who lived in the pretty old house on the riverbank known to all the villagers for generations as the "Doctor's House".

A less pleasant surprise was her friend Julia, whose charming friendly manner concealed a deceitful disagreeable nature, and who almost succeeded in putting the doctor out of Susan's life forever.