Signed 1st edition, in fine condition, dustjacket unclipped. Signed on title page with date and place. \'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!