Francis Urquhart, unscrupulous but cunning Conservative politician, managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. But his survival on the top is threatened by a liberal monarch and some skeletons in the closet.

A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.

Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children, American-style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse riding, Cotswold-style. Who is going to learn most?