Publisher's Synopsis
"...thoroughly original." BOOKLIST Unbeknown to three young women, their paths are about to cross. Beautiful Leonie receives a surprise visit from her wealthy godmother and is sent to work at Lady Angela Bentick's private nursing home near Buckingham Palace; Dorinda sails from France without her wastrel husband and becomes a celebrated member of London's demi-monde; and Mercy is saved from social ignominy by an older man with whom she falls passionately in love. That all three determine on making their own way at a time when to be independent was to risk social ostracism, or even tragedy, is partly due to the influence each comes to have on the others' lives.
