Four cousins, a dog and a crumbling castle on a mysterious island in the bay of a holiday village on the Dorset coast . . . Did you ever wonder what happened to all those characters in all those stories you read as a child? Four adults, Jonathan, Dirk, Jacq and Louise, are together again after more than thirty years. They return to the village of their childhood to find the landmarks are all still there – the island, the cottage, a limping stranger and lashings of country food – but who they were and who they have become is the real mystery.