Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the dis
graced son of an Irish landowning family, a violent, noble and quite unscrupulou
s leader of popular causes. His Scottish wife, Clare, is an artist, a tower of s
trength, fanatically devoted to a musical future for her daughters.
This is t
he story of their life in south London, a life threatened by Piers's streak of t
ragic folly which keeps them on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace
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