Dimensions
112 x 178 x 26mm
It is 1939, the last London Season before the outbreak of war.
For the young debutantes, the Season promises four months of dances and parties, Ascot and the opera. Ronnie, the daughter of a rather eccentric Duke and Duchess, is amused to watch her charming brother pursued as the catch of the Season. Peggy, with her socially ambitious mother and a father in the rag trade, would prefer to go to Oxford but yields to parental pressure. Isabelle feels like a Frenchwoman, thanks to her father, and has no desire to spend the summer with her monstrous English mother. And then there is Anne: beautiful but uncomfortable among titled relatives she would prefer to stay in the country and paint.
For all four debutantes the Season is a superficially amusing, but stifling existence. And then, as the Season comes to an end, a world war threatens to tear Europe apart and destroy all their hopes for the future.
