A Handful of Dust Sarah Crouch bent on erasing the sins

bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past

Machines turn against humans

the legendary bandido El Tragabalas

as the date of her own murder

A Handful of Dust Sarah Crouch bent on erasing the sinscomically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage