La entrometida

Fleur Talbot must survive in the incredibly classist and sexist London of the post-World War II era. And she doesn't just want to survive: she wants to live, and she wants to live it her way. She joins the Autobiographical Association, a club where a snob commissions her to rewrite the memoirs of a group of eccentric millionaires. Alongside this work, where she suspects a dangerous fraud, she comforts the wife of her boss, a rather dull man who, in turn, becomes involved with a poet. Everyone thinks she's a busybody, but nothing could be further from the truth. She simply wants to write her first novel. It becomes increasingly difficult for her to distinguish between fiction and reality. People tell her to lead a more conventional life, to get married, but she dislikes both novels and people with overly ordinary lives: "One day I'll write the story of my life, but first I have to live."