The dazzling Lytton twins Adele & Venetia are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928 on their eighteenth birthday they are rich & admired with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways
- but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton is clever ambitious & a complete contrast to the twins
- & she faces temptation of the most unexpected kind...