'An elating read' Sunday Times A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968
the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in
Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters
are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret
lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer's block in vodka Talbot coping with the daily
dysfunction of making a film is hiding something in a secret apartment and the glamorous Anny
is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in her. But the show must go on and as it
does the trio's private worlds begin to take over their public ones. Pressures build
inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will. From one of Britain's best
loved writers comes an exhilarating tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes
life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?
_______________________________________________ PRAISE FOR WILLIAM BOYD 'The ultimate in
immersive fiction . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and
resonant alchemy of fact and fiction of literary myth and imagination' Guardian on Love is
Blind 'William Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries'
Daily Telegraph 'Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation' Sebastian Faulks
