Book "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden

One June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the brilliant wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party he is hosting that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts turn to the past, and she remembers the times when she was young, like her daughter Elizabeth, her affair with Peter Walsh, recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is driven mad by a missile strike.