title: Curtain Call
author: Randall, Rona
description: 1939 is a critical year in the lives of one of London's most famous theatrical families, the Carvers. Life for the Carvers is never the same after 1939.
  
  1939 is a critical year for the theatrical Carver family. Grande dame Beatrice finds her leading man's preference for her daughter is humiliating. Another anxiety is her son Stephen's infatuation with the attractive American actress Erica Drayton. When it is revealed that Erica is the stepdaughter of Delphine, the estranged sister who came between Beatrice and her husband, Beatrice's rage is uncontainable.