Clifford and Helen move in the smart world of London's swinging sixties He is the handsome young director of Leonardo's She is the one who has 'power over the hearts and lives of men' It is love at first glance and Nell is conceived in white-hot passion and born as sweet and good as any child in Dickens But the South African heiress, Angie, is determined to have Clifford for herself and the marriage is not proof against her machinationsa fairy-tale for grown-ups