A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected
complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and
darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while
studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and
endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances
and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls
are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed
by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick.
However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it
gives way