A love affair...between Matt Shaw, self-made property tycoon, and Eliza Clark, dazzling fashion editor. Their story spans sixties London, the extravagance of Milan and the glamour of New York, but at its core is Summercourt, the lovely decaying country house that has been in Eliza's family for generations.
A marriage...Passionate, and difficult, Matt and Eliza's lives grow increasingly apart and entwined with others: Jeremy Northcott, charming advertising man; beautiful Italian fashion icon, Mariella Crespi; and then there is Louise, Matt's sassy business partner, as successful as him and fighting for her own future.
A child...Emmie, adored, precocious, and ultimately the victim of her parents' doomed marriage, she both holds them together and drives them apart.
The decision...Which is agonizing and desperate, and taken in the divorce courts - where truths will be told, secrets revealed and reputations shattered.
And, at the heart of it all, the fate of a little girl.
