内容简介：
Oliver Lindsay, Bond Street jeweler, is reluctant to permit his daughter Irene to study jewelry design. He believes her role in life is to marry well and have children, but also disapproves of her love of the sensual new style, Art Nouveau. When Irene, caught up both in a romance with a married diamond dealer friend of her father's and her passion for the new modern style, oversteps the mark, Oliver's retribution is unswerving. This shimmering novel from one of Britain's most accomplished romantic novelists, moves from London to Paris and the splendors of Monte Carlo.