I read this book ten years ago, and frustratingly I forgot the title and the author, so I could never find the book again. Hours I spent in the school library, tracing, re-tracing my steps, asking the school librarian to see my past loans (it was so large, it rather overwhelmed me), that I retreated, the plot burning inside my mind, but unable to title it. 
 Then today, 10 years later... 
 Today, it pops into my head. Whenever I've thought about this book in the past, it's with a bittersweet feeling as I thought it was "the one that got away." One of my most favourite/memorable romance novels I read as a young teenager, that I will be destined to never read again. 
 But this time... 
 I thought...hey, why not google what I remember of the plot? It might actually work. 
 So word for word, I typed : woman's husband falls to his death whilst thatching the roof, and then woman falls in love with a deaf man. 
 And when the amazon links popped up straightaway, and I read the synopsis and it described the plot exactly as I remembered it...it felt like I was coming home - that I was being embraced by my past. 
 I loved this book when I read it as a 13-year-old, and I'm so, so happy to find it again.