An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart-s hidden desires
Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than the people inside them. She-d have liked to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn-t explain it.
On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students- party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of worldliness and sophistication both intrigues and repels them. Sinden gets hold of their phone number, but the sisters don-t expect further contact and are surprised when he calls a few days later to invite them to another party, at the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister. Moira accepts despite Evelyn-s misgivings, and as the night unfolds in this unfamiliar, glamorous new setting, the sisters learn things about themselves an
