A Favourite of the Gods

'One of Britain's most stylish and accomplished writers.' -- Telegraph One autumn in the late nineteen-twenties for no particular reason at all, as it would seem, we began to live in France. Constanza and her young daughter step off a train in the French Riviera in the late 1920s without the slightest notion of where they are. But their story begins with Constanza's parents: a beautiful New Engl...