Flying officer Hugh Fleming is shot down and badly burned during the battle of Britain in September 1940.
A collection of stories by the author Frederic Raphael.
The Forsyte family is shown in Victorian respectability as they gather to meet June's fiance, the architect Philip Bosinney. Some years before her father Jolyon has scandalised the family by making her nanny his mistress. Jolyon's cousin Soames, an up and coming solicitor, has recently married the beautiful Irene and retains Bosinney to build a new home - "Robin Hill". Move ahe...
The beautiful Hebe has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title - from Greek mythology). The story revolves around Hebe, her "clients" and their families, and ...
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.
