Statues in a Garden

''Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair'' Observer

''I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.''

1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.

But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriag...