Jonathan Whitman, his cousin Myra, Anne Louise Pritchard and the enormousPritchard clan to which she belonged, saw the changing era and theincredible events of a passing age - an age of great poverty and greatwealth, of the Boer War and social reform, of straw boaters, feather boasand the music hall. Throughout all of this is the story of one woman'sconsuming love and of a jealous obsession that threatened to destroy thevery man she adored....