250pp, 300g. Creases on covers, pages lightly tanned, sticker ghost on front cover, edgewear. The story of a spirited, sensual young woman's adventures, set in the 1880's, recounted by herself with wit and candour and an intimacy of closely observed domestic and technical detail. Charlotte escapes from the narrow confines and high tensions of her home in a London suburb into a marriage with Peter, a fiery young prophet of the new science of electricity. In the country mansion, which her husband is wiring for electric light, she forms a liaison with the irresistible master of the house.