The Love Department

'Listen,' said Lady Dolores, 'there's this person called Septimus Tuam who is a scourge and a disease. He lives in a room in Putney and takes a 93 bus up to the heights and off he goes, peddling his love. It's a scandal of our times. I want you to put a stop to him, Mr Blakestone-Smith.'

Edward Blakeston-Smith is hired by agony aunt Lady Dolores to save the married women of Wimbledon from the seductions of beguiling, sinister Septimus Tuam. And though at first Edward knows nothing of love he is about to discover so much more than he ever wanted to learn . . .