Alick Craven, a young man in the Foreign Office, is introduced by the gossipy Francis Braybrooke to Lady Sellingworth, once the most celebrated beauty in London and now withdrawn from society. Their attachment draws her back into a world of watching eyes and sharp tongues, complicated by a jewel theft and the hard question of age in love.
A perceptive novel about ageing and desire by the author of The Garden of Allah. Download the free EPUB.