Oh, they are nice truffles, but very bad - good chocolate
and double cream!!!

The book - nothing really happens... It is set over 10
years in the 1950s - it's hard to explain, 'coz when I
try, it sounds awful, but I'll try...

It's about this young girl who has led a sheltered life,
and marries the first man who shows any interest in her.
He turns out to be very abusive, but at a party, she meets
Cam, a cultured, sensitive man who falls in love with her.
Frightened of her husband, she can't leave him, but begins
a timid affair with Cam, resulting in a child. The child
is brought up as the husband's, but after he drowns, she
gets the courage to confront her husband, and run away
with Cam. However (nearly finished!) her husband beats
her badly, and she suffers brain damage. The prologue is
set in the present (well, late 90s), and she is still being
cared for by the possessive husband, and then in the
epilogue, she dies, and the husband reads the old
love-letters from Cam, and realises what love they had, and
how his life was empty... So a happy ending then! :)

Sorry, don't know the answer to the Pete/Ray thing though!