Land at Last: A Novel

The novel follows life in Victorian London among fashionable households and newly wealthy families, focusing on an ambitious earl and his circle. Domestic scenes, social satire, and family manoeuvres give way to a contested will and Lady Beauport's plotting, which creates tensions between relatives such as Margaret and Annie and acquaintances like Algy Barford and Mr. Stompff. A disappearance triggers a protracted search punctuated by clues, suspicions, and revelations that peel back private pretensions. The narrative moves from street-level observation and drawing-room comedy into darker investigation and moral reckonings, ending with truths exposed and the characters' circumstances finally resolved.