Signed 'Victoria Glendinning' to the title page.
This is the story of a spirited, sensual young woman's adventures in the 1880s, recounted by herself with wit, candour and an intimacy of closely observed domestic and technical detail.
Charlotte escapes from the narrow confines and high tensions of her home in a London suburb into marriage with Peter Fisher, a fiery young prophet of the new science of electricity.
In the country mansion which her husband is wiring for electric light she forms a liaison with the irresistible master of the house.
She is testing the limits of her world.
She is going too far.