Daylight was fading as Cathy Thomas reached the barn. She could barely make out the two motionless little grey objects. She looked round wildly for the mother. Of Nullah there was no sign. She tried to call the dog's name but a dreadful foreboding parched her throat and paralysed her lips.... The search that follows for her dog's collar to keep as a memento of her lost childhood pet, slowly and gradually becomes a quest for love. A reluctant secretarial student, Cathy is perplexed and confused by her feelings for a deaf-mute farm worker, who seems to follow her everywhere, and a handsome gypsy from the camp on the common near her parents' smallholding. Never The Same Again is the sensitive story of a young girl growing up into womanhood. It not only explores the baffling uncertainties and pangs of adolescence but also develops into an accomplished thriller to which the dramatic climax comes as a totally unexpected surprise.
