Woman of Cairo

Son and daughter of diplomats in Cairo, the gentle Serena Pasha and Mark Holt are good-looking and privileged, growing up in a magical world of champagne breakfasts and midnight picnics at the pyramids. Their lives entwined since childhood, they grow ever closer as adults. Yet Serena''s hand has been promised not to Mark, but to his brother, Greg.

However, as the Second World War speeds closer to C...