The protagonist of the novel, Iris Storm, is a femme fatale with a Hispano-Suiza automobile who is involved in romantic affairs in Bohemian London in the post-World War One era.

[1] The genesis of the novel was Arlen's relationship with writer Nancy Cunard in 1920, although she was married to Sydney Fairbairn at the time and was also involved with Aldous Huxley.

The August 16, 1924 edition of The World's News (Sydney, Australia) carried an anonymous review of the novel, which was positive: The author calls this particular story "A Romance for a Few People."

She arrives one night at the flats where the narrator of the story resides, in a great big motor car, searching for her brother, a neurotic writer, of the peculiar moody temperament which betokens that class of individual.

[4] The 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film A Woman of Affairs directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone, is based on it.