a swirling cocktail of obsession and imagination. The moment that Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous housewife, hostess and landlady - he falls into unrequited love, a story as old as Western literature itself.

The award-winning author of "The Big Music" explores the nature of love in this G&T-fuelled West London-set story of a successful middle-aged financier and a PR expert-turned housewife attempting to get the measure of each other across a series of intense conversations.