Susan Hooper is private secretary to bestselling author, Vivian Proudfoot.
Well-spoken and well-read, she soon learns how to hold her own with London's
literary sophisticates. But the attentions of Mercer Hughes, a handsome agent
with a notorious reputation and a shady past, are more than a docker's daughter
can cope with and she finds herself falling reluctantly in love. She is soon cut
off from her father and at loggerheads with her idealistic brother Ronnie and
his gadabout wife Breda. Even her old friend, newspaperman Danny Cahill, is
shocked at the circles in which Susan finds herself where pimps and gangsters
rub shoulders with wealthy fascist sympathizers