A young man pushed forward by family expectations, a young woman pulled back . A wedding at a fashionable London church in 1948 between two brilliant journalists, deeply in love the ambitious and sophisticated son of a famous Fleet Street editor, and a beautiful twenty-one-year old girl from a different social class who was boldly breaking the barriers on women working in newspapers. Through this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents impassioned marriage and acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen chronicles with novelistic power a generation for whom the experience of the Sixties brought emotional chaos as well as liberation.