An unforgettable story about two sisters and a night that changes everything from the master
chronicler of our heart's hidden desires. 'Tessa Hadley is my favourite author' KATE
ATKINSONEvelyn 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 calls a few days
later to invite them over to the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister
and Moira accepts despite Evelyn's misgivings. As the night unfolds in this unfamiliar
glamorous new setting the sisters learn things about themselves and each other that shock them
and release them into a new phase of their lives. 'Few writers give me such consistent
pleasure' ZADIE SMITH'Hadley's extraordinary skill [is] making both surface life and deep
interiors come fully alive' COLM TÓIBÍN'Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book' HILARY
MANTEL*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES*
