Robin

Set among late-Victorian London society, the narrative follows a delicate young widow whose improvised household collapses after her husband's death, leaving her baby in the hands of a distant, observant aristocrat who steps in to preserve appearances and manage the child’s upbringing. The infant grows up sequestered in a nursery while household routines and social conventions are manipulated to protect reputation, exposing tensions between responsibility, sentiment, and social performance. Parallel threads examine the aristocrat's detached indulgence and the quiet, grieving woman who has loved him, exploring class manners, parental incapacity, and the costs of sheltering a child's life within adult vanity and propriety.