Set partly in London and partly in South Carolina, Girl From the South follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single — the children, in fact, of sixties swingers. They have, it seems, infinite opportunity, but are bedeviled by indecision, by the breadth of choice, by the inflexibility of tradition — and by the consequences of their parents' careless marital history.

Joanna Trollope is best known as the author of eagerly-awaited novels often centered around the domestic nuances and dilemmas of life in contemporary England. She lives in Gloucestershire.