Margot Gavan Duffy

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

Tom Fitzhenry is an ugly and reclusive aristocrat who lives on his own in a large mansion. He despairs of ever having a relationship with a woman... until Cathy comes into his life when she and her father come to repair the house's ageing plumbing.