They met on an English country weekend. He was handsome, aristocratic, mysterious. She was one of the most beautiful women in England, married to an unfeeling brute, and surrounded by adoring, despairing admirers.Thus began a strange and haunting romance that was to take these two through the elegant spas and resorts of Europe - to a shocking and unforgettable revelation in an ancient English manor.....
This author worshipped Scott Fitzgerald. What he did with this slim book is invent very English versions of Jay Gatsby and Daisy. With a rather old-fashioned way of writing, he brought it off quite charmingly.