While They Were Dying

For the Sink Set, a group of moneyed sophisticates, the distant death and destruction of the 2003 Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. In leafy Surrey, all seems as it ever was.

But for one of them, architect Colly Wolfson, the war becomes entwined with two earlier tragedies. Disturbed, and with his marriage crumbling, he drifts into simultaneous affairs and the cracks in his life begin to spread through the Set.

Old tensions, old hatreds surface. And the cracks grow ever wider

A view from Americas closest ally of a numbing, murderous war and of the political passions it aroused a story of love and infidelity, loyalty and betrayal amongst those who stayed at home.