Nineteen-year-old John has been plucked from his small-time London life to be the famous Misty Moore s nanny while she hides out - post-pregnancy - in a crumbling mansion in Wychwood, in deepest Yorkshire. He is dazzled by his change of fortune, by Misty s impossible breasts and most of all by the heartbreaking Hepsie Vine, who is mysteriously bound to Misty. But there s more to his job than just glamour and decadence. For the village of Wychwood comes with the dank trace of secrets and Misty, of course, has plenty of her own.
A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the author of "My Summer of Love".