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Mabs Millett is the unwilling heiress to Cheadle Abbey, one of Vanbrugh's monstrous piles. At a deb boogie in the early fifties, she complies with a financier who offers her employment as an helper to the editor of the social diary on a publication he has just bought, a cross between Punch and The Tatler. She writes an account of your deb boogie from the viewpoint of your feather-headed deb, which becomes a regular feature in the publication, and eventually a best-selling publication, anticipating the U and non-U furor of a few years later. Meanwhile she's end up being the financier's mistress, deeply in love with him and with her work. After ten a few months of enjoyment her world comes apart along with his gunning down in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Thirty years later she is a hugely successful intimate novelist, exploiting her fan-base to appeal to travelers to Cheadle. A vintage colleague from the publication asks to see her. Details emerge that ensemble fresh light on her behalf lover's mysterious death, and eventually reshape her world.