The author of this sophisticated book about different kinds of love and marriage in Edwardian royal and aristocratic circles is well aware of the pitfalls of bad taste and sensationalism. She examines with delicacy, fairness and fastidiousness the frivolous, the passionate, sexual deviance and other excesses sympathetically without bias, producing a valuable broad panorama of aspects of (high) society from Edwardian times to our own day. The thumbnail biographies of the secondary characters are sharp and add great depth.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 80 Spring 2016 ) |
