En cours de chargement...
1611. Paul Pindar, rich merchant of the Levant Company, sets sail for England after ten years in the Orient - bringing with him his wife Celia Lamprey, and a legendary diamond. They arrive in London to find a country much changed ; James I has succeeded Queen Elizabeth and an artistic Renaissance is flourishing. Pindar immediately begins restoring his great house at Bishopsgate to its former splendour.
But all is not as it seems. Celia is frail, the marriage childless. Between the couple lies an unspoken darkness. And as they await the arrival of Celia's friend Annetta, another woman, the alluring widow Frances Sydenham, becomes increasingly indispensable to the running of the household - and the happiness of its inhabitants. But who is this strange woman, and what are her real motives ?
