'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes,
acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows
seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be
understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to
explain.' In the early seventies, a glamorous and androgynous
couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated
concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers
experimenting with radical ideas, they seem blown back from the
future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But
their mesmerising flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties
and hidden histories. For Adele, who also has something to conceal,
Evie becomes an obsession - an obsession which becomes lifelong
after the night of Adele's twentieth birthday party. What happened
that evening and who was complicit are questions that have haunted
Adele ever since. A set of school exercise books might reveal
everything, but they have been missing for the past forty years.
From summers in 1970s Cornwall to London in the twenty-first
century, long after she has disappeared, Evie will go on
challenging everyone's ideas of how their lives should turn out.
With her hallmark humour, intelligence and boldness Linda Grant has
written a powerful and captivating novel about secrets and the
moments that shape our lives.
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