Jilly Cooper's latest story is about loneliness in high places, and heroism and passionate love triumphing against the odds. Sir Robert Rannaldini has two ambitions: first, to seduce Tabitha and second to conduct Don Carlos, Verdi's darkest opera. Rannaldini is writing his memoirs, and from that mom[...]

Discovered by a young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four childre[...]