About a couple Emily, who worked as the local midwife, and Robbie, a boatbuilder who live in Maine USA. We meet them in their eighties, when Robbie feels he needs to take action to protect a lifelong secret, something that will otherwise blow their family apart. We work back from there, dipping into their history, their choices and mistakes, gradually forming a picture of a life lived, and how these two people came to be together, beginning in Norfolk England, where Emily grew up. We also draw nearer to the secret.
Billed as a stellar love story, Together is for the most part an engaging read. I was slightly troubled by the co-incidence at the heart of the book (the fact that they meet at all) but as we discover Emily and Robbie have some painful choices to make throughout their lives, which they are forced to revisit in order to be, well... together.
