The year is 1786 and in the quiet countryside of Mere in Wiltshire sits 'The Willows', a small estate whose sole produce has being the growing of flax. It has been the current family's home now for three generations, since it was inherited by George MacMartin in 1716. Elizabeth Hamilton - the present owner - and her son Stewart had lived alone there until a cousin; Alexander was taken into the family when Stewart was 12. Life there has not...