Jas is alone, uprooted and struggling; an Australian failing to make a living in dirty, unglamorous London – until she meets Todd.
Launched into another universe – the up-side of Tony Blair’s Britain – Jas begins to see how the other half lives, or pretends to live. In a world where the mortgage is already paid, the ‘help’ takes care of practical matters, and your biggest obstacle is dodging the sherry at college dinners, there’s nothing left to worry about. Or is there?
Neither one thing nor the other, belonging nowhere, Jas bumps along from one experience to the next, a grip on language, her ‘running commentary’, the only lifeline. Her words begin to unravel for us where the romance novel usually ends. Marriage is the question, not the answer. And then she finds Miriam…
