Shy girl and former Bright Young Thing (with Bridget Jones’s talent for disaster) obsessed with Alice in Wonderland marries Britain's richest and indulged duke; older, not much wiser and with a fearsome temper. They live unhappily ever after (well, until the divorce) in a Gothic mansion that looked like Manchester town hall. Part Cinderella, Jane Eyre and Rebecca - watch out for the melodramatic scene with a decadent little clock with diamond hands flying across a room thrown by his grace and one of the best tiaras on any book cover ever. And it's all true.