A stunningly powerful novel of love and suffering from the acclaimed author of SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY and CHARLOTTE STREET. At a terrible moment of high drama, with a fire on a North Sea oil rig, Madeline Light, a trauma therapist, is flown in by helicopter to give immediate aid to survivors and their families. Posing as an oil company official, Flynn Brennan, a photo-journalist specialising in war and disaster, usues her to gain passage onto the rig to take photographs of the aftermath. Three months later, with his marriage almost in tatters, and showing the early signs of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Brennan doorsteps the therapist and persuades her to take him on as a client. He comes across as hard-bitten and provocative, but despite herself and her own steady but untimately barren relationship with the sculptor Patrick, Madeline finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. During the progress of his therapy and of their relationship, Flynn is finally restored to himself and Madeline healed of her own secret trauma. Like THE HORSE WHISPERER, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN and THE PRINCE OF TIDES, HEALING FLYNN works at several levels -- as an emotionally impactful love story; an incisive analysis of human relationships, and as a wise novel about the nature of tragedy, suffering and healing.