It begins in Milan in 1894, where a shrewd hotel porter sizes up a party of English travellers. Dion Leith marries the beautiful Rosamund and they honeymoon in Greece, but the birth of a child, a shift in her devotion, the coming of war and the influence of others draw their marriage into a long wilderness of estrangement and temptation.
A long, atmospheric society novel by the author of The Garden of Allah. Download the free EPUB.