"'Quite apart from being a love story, Gateway to Heaven is conceived to be a tale of high romance, which may loosely be taken to imply ladies fair and knights on quest and roast dragon for dinner.' - The author. Gateway to Heaven, the eagerly awaited new book by the award-winning author of A Severe Mercy, is the story of Richard Vallance, thoughtful and calm, a student at Oxford; Mary, the girl he marries, witty and imaginative, filled with joie de vivre; and their exploration of the complexities of marital love against the turbulent background of the 1960s."--Book Jacket.