Masterpiece Classic Our story begins with an elderly Logan Mountstuart opening a journal dated 1926, then we are transported into the past. Logan is now a young man studying literature at Oxford with his main goals being to become a great novelist a... (more)nd to lose his virginity. He begins to fantasize about Tess, a local girl who happens to be in a relationship with his close friend Peter Scabius. Upon graduation, Logan consoles his dying father by promising to work in the dreary family business. However, his life changes course when he meets Ernest Hemingway while on a trip to Paris with his friend Ben. His dreams of becoming a writer are reignited and so begins a life filled with pursued passions. From first love to true love, escaping a suffocating earldom with his wife Lottie, journeying to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, and reveling in domestic bliss with Freya in Battersea. His dying father had counseled him to "enjoy good luck when it comes your way. It's all luck in the end." Logan has hurt and been hurt, seen much of the world, become a father himself, and still, he is so young. But will his good luck hold out?