The Eustache Diamonds

Lizzie Greystock's acquaintances, and her many more numerous rivals, agreed that she had made a fine match of her life. The novel traces her history from its earliest stages, though it moves briskly through the early years rather than lingering over them, as the narrator would if he were fond of her. She was the sole child of Admiral Greystock, who in his final years found the task of raising a daughter a considerable puzzle.

The book is one of Anthony Trollope's Victorian novels of English society and belongs to his Palliser series, where it is the third volume. Its plot centres on the widowed Lizzie Eustace and a family necklace of diamonds, and its tone is wry and observant toward the social manoeuvring of its characters.