Misalliance

Synopsis

A wealthy family’s country house in Edwardian England

Hypatia Tarleton stands at the edge of her family’s manicured lawn, her eyes fixed on the distant horizon where freedom beckons. The stifling air of the English countryside, thick with the scent of roses and expectations, threatens to suffocate her. She is a lioness in a gilded cage, pacing restlessly, her wit as sharp as her hunger for a life beyond the narrow confines of Edwardian propriety.

Into this world of starched collars and rigid social rules, Shaw hurls a motley crew of suitors and interlopers. There’s Bentley Summerhays, a squeaky-voiced aristocrat whose proposal leaves Hypatia cold; Johnny Tarleton, her boringly dependable brother; and Lord Summerhays, whose lecherous attentions prove that age does not always bring wisdom. But it’s the arrival of Joey Percival – dashing aviator and embodiment of the new century’s promise – that sets Hypatia’s heart racing and the household’s carefully maintained order into delightful disarray.