This book is set in the late 1920s in Britain, the era of the Bright Young Things who were rich and titled and carefree.  Our heroine, Rachel Woodley, however is none of those things.  At the start of the book, she is working as a governess to a trio of children in Paris and receives a telegram informing her that her mother is at death’s door.  Due to the fact she rebuffed the advances of one of her co-workers, he delayed passing along the telegram […]