Mary Renault 
North Face 
A Novel

Two wary souls find a second chance at love while rock climbing in the English countryside in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.  On vacation in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. The wounds from his former marriage are still raw; his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died. The teacher and rock climber believes hope to be behind him until he comes across Ellen, a young woman staying at the same guesthouse as he, and whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Struggling to deal with her feelings for a pilot step-cousin who died in service, Ellen has her own romantic scars. If their connection is to endure, Neil and Ellen must carefully confront their painful pasts. Filled with a memorable cast of secondary characters in austerity Britain,  North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension, from a master of the novelist’s craft.