Recollections of a Hungarian socialist leader, Prime Minister and President in 1918, who spent most of his later years in exile.

White aster flowers, on sale on the streets of Budapest on the eve of All Souls' Day, are made the symbol of a revolution which brings Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National Council.

"Memories, Mysteries and Magyars is about incidents and memories in the life of Sophie Edwards, nee Karolyi, born in Hungary in 1926 into one of the oldest aristocratic families of that country.