London, 1926.

Evie Gifford, one of the first female lawyers in Britain, is not a woman who lets convention get in her way. She has left her family home following a devastating love affair, much to her mother's disapproval.

London is tense in the days leading up to the General Strike and Evelyn throws herself into two very different cases - one involving a family with links to the unions and the other a rich man who claims not to be the father of his wife's child. Evie is confronting the hardest challenge of her career when she is faced with an unexpected proposal - just as her former lover returns.

How can she possibly choose between security with a man she admires and passion for the man who betrayed her?

First published 2014
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2015

I'll take McMahon's book to the BC meet-up at Roasberg in the afternoon, hopefully it finds a reader there :)

I took the book with me as it sounded interesting :)