1925. Margaret Kennedy tells the story of a teenaged girl who falls in love with a family friend who eventually marries her cousin. The two girls show mutual jealousy over their common love for the man. The book begins: At the time of his death the name of Albert Sanger was barely known to the musical public of Great Britain. Among the very few who had heard of him there were even some who called him Sanje, in the French manner, being disinclined to suppose that great men are occasionally born in Hammersmith.