Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day the prelude to a devoted & competitive friendship… Freya ambitious & outspoken pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy less self-confident struggles to get her first novel published Both friends become entangled with Robert Cosway a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman’s life & loves in extraordinary times