The novel is set in present-day England, except that Britain never relinquished its Empire, or the Victorian values that went with it. Instead they have been exaggerated and taken to extremes as the years have passed. Corsets, for example, lace from the feet to the neck and encase the arms. And it's not just the corsets that are boned. A bizarre, CP-fueled novel and the first alternative-history erotic fiction we've come across!