This novel from the acclaimed actress and author Sheila Hancock, traces the life of Marguerite Carter from the end of WWII through to the 1980s. After wartime work as an SOE operative, she leaves her partisan lover and returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Through deep friendships and love lost and found, from the peace marches of the 50s and the flowering of the Swinging 60s, to the rise of Thatcher and the battle for gay rights, to the spectre of a new war, this is a powerful, panoramic portrait of Britain through the life of one very singular woman