Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable
life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls
passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion
does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is
shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day.
Miles's love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her
whims. Vita Sackville-West collides attitudes to work, sex and society in
the changing world of the early 1930s.