It's an ordinary, dreary February morning when journalist Amanda Griggs is rudely awoken by her boss after yet another night of mindless hedonism. 'Yellow!' he barks down the phone. Yellow? Yellow what? It doesn't take long to find out, for this morning London is wearing a big, yellow smile, and her inhabitants seem to find it catching. All around the town, yellow insignia have popped up: The Monument wears decadent yellow streamers; Temple Bar proudly displays enormous yellow rosettes; Queen Victoria's statue is regally crowned with a wreath of daffodils. Amanda is on the case, as is DCI...

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in 1954.