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!

Liebe – schwarz auf weiß. Es hat gefunkt beim ersten Anblick. Evan ist in Liebe zu Caroline entbrannt. Alles Weitere soll seine gute alte Freundin Nin für ihn festhalten, auf dem Papier. Am besten als Roman. Den sie bei unzähligen Treffen in diversen Londoner Pubs bereden. Und sollte der Plot zu wünschen übrig lassen ... Es gibt ja berühmte Vorlagen für diese Art von Liebe. Überraschend, herausfordernd, geistreich und witzig.