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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 ATKINSON<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure'<BR>ZADIE SMITH<BR><BR>'Hadley's extraordinary skill [is] making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive'<BR>COLM TÓIBÍN<BR><BR>'Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book'<BR>HILARY MANTEL<BR><BR>*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES*<BR>
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