Alfred Gibson's funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. The Great Man's will favours his children and a clandestine mistress over his estranged wife. Dorothea is comforted by her feisty daughter Kitty, until an invitation for a private audience with Queen Victoria arrives, and she begins to examine her own life more closely. Vic-Lit at its best from an accomplished new voice.