Edward Barton was one of the most successful novelists of the twentieth century. The critics didn't like him, but readers loved him - and so did the film industry, turning out movie after movie based on his blockbusters. Then at the height of his fame, after the worldwide success of his best selling novel The Interlude, Edward retired from public life and never wrote another word.
It's left to his granddaughter Helen, married with two young children,to untangle the web of fiction and lies surrounding Edward Barton's legacy, and to reveal the secret at the heart of her family - a love story far stronger than anything in his novels. And while Helen confronts the truth about her family's past, she falls into a reckless affair that my threaten her own future.