Laura Cherry, nineteen and from a North London Jewish family, travels before she is to marry, to attend a New Age Life Enhancement course. Here she meets a group of alternatively eccentric, seductive, damaged a participants and her life is changed. Although detached from the group, to review how she has lived so far, and how she might change. This process shy Irish Catholic boy she met on the train, and a group of itinerant music freedom she has never experienced. Grandma Cherry, who is dying, visits Laura nightly in her dreams, revealing Poland and her journey across Europe in the Second World War, a story romance, tragedy and survival. Laura discovers that the Swiss town where central to her grandmother's story. Realising she must break her engagement, Laura travels at the end of the unexpected direction. Nothing I Touch Stands Still is a magical novel which skilfully wraps the sexual awareness, her grandmother's epic tale and a humorous look at the multi-dimensional time.