The Spoilt City is the second in a trilogy of novels continuous in action but planned so that each may be read alone. The first was called The Great Fortune. Guy and Harriet Pringle, the young couple who were on their honeymoon in The Great Fortune, the previous novel, in Olivia Manning's Balkan trilogy, now find themselves caught in the dramatic last days of King Carol's reign in the lavish, cosmopolitan city of Bucharest.
