When American heiress Livy Randolph married millionaire English knight, Billy Bancroft, it seemed a match made in heaven. He was powerful and charismatic - although he hid his lowly East End origins. She was beautiful and stylish - but at a cost no one was allowed to see. In the search for perfection she sacrificed the love of those who needed her most: Ros, adored daughter of her first marriage, had good reason to loathe Billy; Diana, who tried so hard to imitate her mother that she nearly died from anorexia, and David, for whom the pressure of being Billy's favourite proved tragically too great...
