Set against the backdrop of the first belle epoque, that Edwardian era of immense luxury and immense social deprivation, moving into the horrors of the First World War and finally the outrageous glamour of the twenties.
Publisher and place of publication varies Pagination varies Volume one in a series, 'The spoils of time' which follows the Lyttons through the first fifty years of the twentieth century"--Cover verso trade pbk. ed
