Joan Allway steps into an old London church looking for good copy and stays for a sermon that unsettles her. A clever young journalist making her way in Edwardian London, she moves among politicians, artists and reformers, falls in love with a married editor and keeps asking what a life of service would really demand, until the war comes.
A serious late novel from the author of Three Men in a Boat, showing a different side of him. Download the free EPUB.