23 year old Cari accepts a temporary teaching post on St Mary's, the largest of the Isles of Scilly, because the remembers staying there for 2 months as a child after crossing the Atlantic Ocean with her parents and sister in a small yacht. Her husband Andrew accompanies her but he seems only to be interested in writing his thesis.
After a chance meeting on St Martin's Cari falls in love with Hugh, a farmer and sailing instructor, and starts an affair with him. However although he is divorced his life isn't straightforward. Cari also eventually gets to know one of her neighbours on St Mary's, an artist called Anna. Anna too has sadness in her past: a failed marriage and her son was drowned in a sailing accident off the Isles of Scilly a few years earlier.
While on a school trip to the mainland Anna's niece Yvonne, who lives on St Martin's and knows Hugh well, goes missing in Plymouth. Anna is sent to find her. Hugh is initially blamed for causing her disappearance but he has nothing to do with it.
Life for Cari, Anna and Hugh is anything but simple, so the title is a bit misleading, although a simpler life was probably what Anna and Cari were hoping for when they moved to the Isles of Scilly. I found Cari's character rather annoying because she didn't seem to have any interest in trying to save her marriage. 6/10
Islands covered - St Mary's and St Martin's
Higher Town, St Martin's
Town Beach, Hugh Town
Hugh Town from The Garrison
Higher Town Beach, St Martin's
Great Bay, St Martin's
Watermill Bay, St Mary's
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