Set in London and Tuscany, Someone Wonderful casts a magical net around the lives of six people: Great Teape; her orphaned niece Lily; her young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; her photographer brother, Oliver Cary; his journalist wife, Melissa; and their blind son, Sebastian. With irony, elegance and insight, Barbara Neil explores the limits of our capacity to protect our own in this joyous and heartbreaking novel.