Laura Thornby is independent individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful her career fulfilling and she copes with her two rather peculiar relatives and the gossip about her parentage with wryness and humour.But then she meets twenty-three-year old Claude a struggling writer and she is overcome by an irresistible desire to interfere manipulate and experiment - all for his own good of course.What Laura does not foresee however are the possibilities that one day Claude may actually complete his novel and that she may well fall in love.
