Distant Music Author:Charlotte Bingham Life was tough in England after the Second World War - at least it was for those who were not part of some particular elite, the fabulously wealthy or the tiny coterie of British film and theatre starts. Little wonder then that Elsie Lancaster, the granddaughter of a theatrical landlady, thinks of nothing else but trying to become one of that s... more »hining constellation. Surprising therefore, given their very different origins, that Oliver Plunkett shares the same ambition, for his is the pampered background of old money. Groomed from an early age by is father's theatre-mad butler, there is no other world to which Oliver aspires.........« less