Sylvain de Guilherand introduces toilets and other aspects of indoor plumbing to the Palais de Versailles during the reign of Louis XV; however, this is complicated by the attitudes of the aristocracy — and by the personality of the captive nixie he is secretly using to power the system.
Robson has stated that the themes of the story are "the act of taking nurturing creates love, and love changes you" and "trying to be please everyone is a recipe for disaster".[6]
Sequel
In 2024, Robson published a sequel, "The High Cost of Heat", in The Sunday Morning Transport.[7]
