Increasingly dissatisfied with her engagement to the nice-but-clueless boy next door, Meg decides to probe her dream, discovering a suppressed memory from her childhood. She becomes a successful portrait painter in her late teens, despite suffering from a recurring nightmare. In this novel Meg Frazer was a child when her movie-star mom died not long after a divorce: Meg is sent from California to London to grow up with her emotionally-distant father.
This story is an example of a particular romance-thriller formula favored by its author, Joan Aiken: a girl who grew up without a mother comes of age and is successful on her own terms, then stumbles into a conspiracy where she meets The Guy.
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