Red Sky at Morning

'Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians' Irish Times William and Emily Crowne seem to have it all - they live a life of privilege and glamour in London, the children of a successful poet, attractive, happy, largely blind to the world around them. But life takes an unexpected turn when their mother dies, and their father is caught up in the most scandalous and notorious of criminal trials. Suddenly effectively orphans ...