At Mrs Lippincote's

Mrs Lippincote's house, with its heavy furniture and yellowing photographs, stands for all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. And, temporarily, it is home for Julia regarded as a most unsatisfactory officer's wife, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF, with her young son and Roddy's cousin, Eleanor. All the hypocrisies and evasions inherent in marriage come to the fore as the inhabitants of Mrs Lippincote's household undergo the chance encounters and social flux of the war years.