Another riveting drama from Penny Vincenzi, More Than You Know is set in the 1960s as the world of debutantes and old money begin to clash with new money.Eliza Fullerton-Clark comes from a distinguished family, growing up in the family estate of Summercourt. Despite her posh upbringing, her family is far from wealthy.
Eliza and her brother Charles both work in London. Eliza is a fashion editor, a position she loves, while her brother is a stock broker, despite his lack of aptitude to make money.
When Jeremy Northcott, an upper class peer who not only comes from the right family, but is also in line to a huge inheritance, proposes, Eliza chooses her heart and instead, marries Matt Shaw, a working class mate of her brothers from National Service.
They have a daughter Emmie. Eliza reluctantly gives up her career at the wishes of Matt to care for their daughter. Despite their passionate love for each other, the marriage begins to unravel.
Eliza is unfulfilled as a housewife and after a devastating travesty, she finds the need to go back to work to become herself again.
Like all Vincenzi novels, More Than You Know is filled with rich, supporting characters - the larger-than-life Italian Mariella Crespi, Heather Connell who lives in a tenement with her young family, and Matt's sister Scarlett and her lovers David Berenson and Mark Foster.
Despite the many failed relationships, affairs and ruined marriages, More Than You Know manages to wrap up with each character content and fulfilled, if not necessarily with the loves of their lives.
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