Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel, fifth book, one set against a background of the privileged worlds of Fifth Avenue and the British upper classes in the 1920s, this is the story of a young woman who becomes involved in the Universal Society of Brotherhood. Although her journey takes her from youthful naivete to a recognition of charlantism, she never loses her belief in love and goodnes.. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-395354196.