"I had to be ruthless in order to be free..."
Alan Whicker is concerned by The Stresses of Divorce

Why does the pressure on people in the public eye so often break up their marriages? Five divorces revolve round these two women: Elizabeth Jane Howard, novelist, and Sandra Paul, international cover-girl, Peter Scott, David Wynne-Morgan, and Robin Douglas-Home, three of the eight characters on a matrimonial marry-go-round, reveal the emotions surrounding their marriages and re-marriages, and the effect of divorce upon their lives.
Do people have the right to part, to consider only their own happiness? What of those left behind alone?