The Second World War is over but the ravages remain and the Lytton family must confront the future Kit Lytton, blinded in RAF service, is coming to terms with the fact that his father is not Oliver Lytton as he thought, but the famous chilren's author, Sebastian Brook His sense of betrayal is immense, but worse is the discovery that the woman he loves is his siter Barty Miller is now in the curious position of owning a majority share of Lyttons, the publishing house belonging to the family that brought her up Bt how will she act towards those who always made her feel she didn't belong? And what secrets in the Lytton past remain to be discovered?