Caroline's Bikini

'Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini : a swirling cocktail of infatuation, obsession, and imagination. The moment that Emily's friend Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous former horsewoman, and now housewife, hostess, and landlady - there is a 'PING!' At least, that's how Evan describes it to Emily when he persuades her to record his story: the story of falling into unrequited love, which is as old as Western literature itself. Thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the beguiling backdrop of West London's bars, fuelled in intensity by endless G&Ts and Q&As. From the depths of mid-winter to July's hot swelter, Emily's narration of Evan's passion for Caroline will take him to the brink of his own destruction. Written in a voice so playful, so charismatic, and so thoughtfully aware of the responsibilities of fiction it can only be by Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini is a swooning portrait of courtly love - in a modern world not celebrated for its restraint and abstraction. Ready. Steady. Go!

Product details

• Authors: Gunn Kirsty, Kirsty Gunn
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.06.2018
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780571339327
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33932-7
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions (packing): 13.5 x 21.6 x 2.4 cm
• Subjects: FICTION / General; FICTION / Literary; Fiction: general and literary