Publisher's Synopsis
The conclusion to the Clifton Chronicles. Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the cabinet secretary. Is she a spy, or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank after Hakim Bishara resigns for personal reasons. Sebastian and his wife Samantha's talented daughter Jessica is expelled from the Slade School of Art. Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees an opportunity to finally trump the Cliftons and the Barringtons. Then tragedy engulfs the Clifton family...
