Some do not...: A novel
In the dying light of Edwardian England, Christopher Tietjens stands as the last gentleman: a brilliant government statistician bound by an impossible code of honor to a wife who despises him. When he meets Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette with fire in her eyes and revolution in her heart, something long thought dead stirs to life within him. Over one fateful weekend in the English countryside, as war gathers like a storm on the horizon, two people from opposite ends of the social spectrum discover that some loyalties - to country, to spouse, to the empty rituals of their class - can be no match for the truth of what the heart demands. Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece captures a world on the brink of annihilation, where the old order crumbles and the only question that remains is: what are any of us willing to sacrifice for love, and at what point does honor become simply another word for self-destruction?
