<p>In &quot;Sentiment&quot; Vincent O&#39;Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The story centres around the love affairs of four young people and how they interact. O&#39;Sullivan picks apart his characters&#39; cares and concerns and shows how these are trivial when we know what was about to happen to them and their world.</p><p>Vincent O&#39;Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child. However Vincent spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the setting of many of his stories.</p>