It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half French, half English, Marguerite Carter returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. From the peace marches of the fifties and the flowering of the Swinging Sixties, to the rise of Thatcher and the battle for gay rights, to the spectre of a new war, Sheila Hancock has created a powerful, panoramic portrait of Britain through the life of one very singular woman.