What remains of the springs summers autumns and winters of a woman s life Isadora now an old woman relegated to a hospice looks back on her life and how intimately intertwined it was with that of the big sprawling house where she spent almost her entire existence Her memories of childhood and beyond come back to her season by season from the games and warmth of Summer and the back to school days of Autumn to the crisp cold days of Winter days of loneliness and death and to Spring s promise of renewal and of the return to the house that meant so much to her Told in lyrical beguiling language Isadora guides the reader through the maze of her memory by classifying like a watercolourist her recollections by season