Catherine Hope can control her class of thirty noisy school children, but trying to keep her stunning seventeen-year-old daughter on track for A levels, that's a different matter. Rachel, usually studious and submissive, is suddenly ripe for rebellion. The reason? Marko: sexy, sultry, countryside campaigner, a Georgette Heyer hero with an eyebrow stud. Marko is out to save a threatened woodland from destruction - a woodland right on the doorstep of Rachel's conventional and disapproving grandmother, Lavinia. As the protest erupts Rachel is pulled in - as is Lavinia. Friendships are severed, loyalties divided, even lives endangered, and Lavinia turns out to have hidden passions of their own.
The once beautiful daughter, model mother and gracious grandmother all find themselves changed forever in this entertaining and moving story of the war between the generations.
