It's London, and the Sixties are in full bloom. Clelia Crespi is young, beautiful, brilliant and soon to go up to Oxford - also up for anything. She is the young sister of politician James Crespi, who is about to be destroyed by a sex scandal. On the advice of ambitious civil servant Nigel Rawlinson, Clelia's legal guardian, she must quickly get engaged before the scandal breaks, so she won't be tainted goods forever. Enter Guy Blandford: aristocrat, brilliant Oxford undergraduate, champion cricketer, all round golden boy, and enamoured with Clelia. The perfect would be husband. If only, that is, he could keep his hands off the handsome and erudite young men who surround him and want a piece of him. And if only Clelia could keep her hands off Nigel, who is besotted with her, against his better judgment. Everybody wants Clelia...but no one can really have her.