'Does something exceptional . . . Sometimes it's erotic sometimes it's devastating' New York
Times Mallory sees the woman for the first time at her college gym and is immediately
transfixed. Naturally reserved and reeling from the loss of her mother Mallory finds herself
compelled by the woman's assurance and sophistication and longs to know her better. Despite
the discovery that she is a professor at the college she quickly falls into a complicated
all-consuming love affair with the woman retreating from the rest of the world. In the years
that follow Mallory must come to terms with how the relationship shaped her for better or
worse and learn to take back the life that she sacrificed for the sake of a woman she never
truly knew. 'Hart is gifted with a poet's precision blending image and idea. Sensual and
wise' Tayari Jones author of An American Marriage 'An electric debut' Marie Claire
'Skilfully depicts forbidden romance and the shame it can foster' Time
