A woman of our times - Rosie Thomas

Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want?

She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife she has made herself the City's darling, her name linked in gossip columns with film star Caspar Jensen.

She has come a long way from Simon Archer, the man who invented a brilliantly simple game of chance and skill in a prison camp forty years ago, a game that is the foundation of Harriet's business empire.

She has come a long way from her family, friends and former lovers.

But when things start going wrong Harriet finds that in love, as in the game, the quickest way to a goal can be the riskiest...