A moving saga of divided loyalties, family ties, love and war, set in London and Switzerland, mainly during the Great War. The second book in the bestselling Gollantz Family Saga, tracing the lives and loves of the family over several generations. Emmanuel Gollantz finds that there is a high price to pay for that "wild lie which men call pride". A marriage full of promise presents challenges he could not have foreseen. The futures of Emmanuel's sons, Algernon and Max, are determined by affairs of world politics and of the heart.