Why does the pressure on people in the public eye so often break up their marriages? Five divorces revolve round these two women: Elizabeth Jane Howard, novelist, and Sandra Paul, international cover-girl. Peter Scott, David Wynne-Morgan, and Robin Douglas-Home, three of the eight characters on a matrimonial marry-go-round, reveal the emotions surrounding their marriages and re-marriages, and the effect of divorce upon their lives. Do people have the right to part, to consider only their own happiness? What of those left behind alone?
