In the sleepy seaside town of Saltport, winds of change blow through the Palmer family bakery. Brooding artist Diego, haunted by his father's death, paints moody landscapes while stifled by the family business. His beautiful but disappointed mother Fay longs for escape. When local chemist Purley Bond, smitten with Fay, whisks the Palmers off on an exotic European adventure, they find themselves awakened. But as passions ignite and secrets emerge, the family is swept towards disaster. Cousin Josie, devoted to the Palmers, can only watch helplessly as Diego and Fay move closer and closer to tragedy LARK ASCENDING captures the timeless struggle between duty and desire, hope and heartache, in Mazo de la Roche's stirring portrait of restlessness and reinvention.