The Wind in Our Eyes — S.D. Gripton

Celine and Archie Manton; wife and daughter of Inspector James Manton, are killed in a terrorist explosion in an unnamed city in the North West of England. Manton is broken. He resigns from the Police Force, sells the family home, sells all the furniture, even his car.He wants to go somewhere where people barely know him and where they speak a language he does not understand. He yearns for nothing but isolation as he awaits death from the rolling surf.He moves to an isolated Welsh village named Llandrugg, where the predominate language is Welsh. He owns a holiday home there. He is known to villagers, but only as a detached, miserable individual; though his wife and daughter were much better known.He settle In and in his own way is surviving. Until, one day when he opens his door to step out onto the sand, a girl rolls in. She has been sleeping on his balcony, leaning against the door.She is Molly Hardwick.Manton totally rejects her, is angry at her.Until he realises she has arrived in Llandrugg to die, too.Unbeknown to Manton Molly Hardwick was the fiancée of Archie, his daughter, they were soon to be married.She is in as much pain as Manton himself.They learn how to survive together.Until it is time to surrender to the surf