Irene, beautiful and headstrong, is born in Lambeth, daughter of a
river policeman who served a full career in the army and had boxed
professionally. Her mother spent her working life in domestic
service. Despite being raised in a stable and loving family, Irene
always feels she has been born into the wrong level of society.
When she marries the eldest son of the local vicar, it gives her
the position she has always sought. They appear to be very happy,
but when the war intervenes, with the inevitable long separations,
affections on both sides stray. Separation, tempestuous
relationships and further marriages to unsuitable men steadily
erode Irene's status as the 'Colonel's Lady', furthering her anger
and unhappiness at how her life has devolved. Always in debt and
estranged from her closest family, the base side of her nature
comes to the fore as she struggles to create a successful business
and to regain the admiration and respect in which she was once
held. A novel of ambition and selfish desires, this modern story
has at its centre a beautiful, amoral anti-heroine who readers
cannot help but root for even as they marvel at the rise and
decline of Irene.
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