Following "A Change in Climate", this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of "Wolf Hall" is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel"s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.