Description
The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat travelling from London to France, intent on proposing to Anna Leath. Anna is a young widow, an American living in France with her step-mother. However, unsettled by Anna's restraint, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and impecunious young governess. But Sophie holds the key to a secret which comes to reveal that Anna's future - and the very foundation of her life.