This has a sad, lyrical quality about it, but it reads almost like a rough sketch of an idea. Certainly there could have been more meat to the story, and it could have even been worked into a novella had [a:Kate Chopin|5132|Kate Chopin|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1224805370p2/5132.jpg] chosen to go that way. It's highly predictable, but the audio narration by Angela Brazil and Stephen R. Thorne was quite well done, and saved this from a two star rating from me.