Meet Fenella Anastasia Sophia Phizackerley, a girl as regal, mysterious and original as her name. Who is perhaps the spiritual granddaughter of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson - so bedazzled by her own fatal beauty that nothing else in life had any significance. Fenella ... who grows more beautiful each day. And more lazy and self-centred. Perfectly cancelling out her father's ambitions for her. Fenella ... who doesn't have to lift a finger to conquer men - they are charmed and challenged by her impassive, hypnotic beauty. Fenella Phizackerley ... unpredictable! Who sails through affairs and marriages until she finally sets a new course as unexpected to all who knew her as it will be for the reader.