Continues the story of Marian Sutro from the end of World War 2 to the Cold War in the 50s. I don't know, I just didn't care for it as much as I did for the first book. Marian is written very unemotionally so it's hard to relate to her as a sympathetic character. I just couldn't relate to her and her actions very well. It's the writing that kept me reading, not the story.