In the late 1980s, two young women make a pact to pursue, in shockingly different ways, lives shorn of compromise. One is a working-class political idealist, the other a charismatic depressive, but both are victims of their beliefs. What we have here is a well-judged, quietly alarming, fictional essay about egotism and truth-seeking, ambition and status, from an author who knows that our real motivations to do good, or to be of use, are often revealed by the actions of others.
- Will Eaves
A novel that asks how responsible we are for each other, and how much control we have over our own lives, let alone the lives of other people.
- Margaret James, author of The Silver Locket
