About the book: 2022 / The nineteenth century is ending. The youngest daughter of a wealthy Liverpool entrepreneur, Minnie, is twenty-four years old, and she still can’t choose a life partner. Surrounded by admirers, including the baronet, Minnie dreams of true love, while her parents worry about the future of the wayward girl. And then one day Minnie and her parents go to the most ordinary concert, and her life begins to inexorably storm.