Publisher's Synopsis
Annie: beautiful and brilliant, a historian popular on television, with the worst possible taste in men, unprepared for the dangers into which she is plunged ...Joe: paraplegic, exposes corruption in politics and big business, believes his condition makes impossible a relationship with the policewoman who loves him ...Meg: teacher of maths, content in her job and with her string of uncommitted gay relationships, thrust suddenly into situations she has never imagined ...Ray: forced long ago from his post as history teacher by false accusations of sexual impropriety, now exists aimlessly until the past returns to haunt him ...Reunited after years apart, these four confront political extremism, discovering more about one another than they ever knew - and also learn about themselves, their hopes and ambitions, their sexuality, their weaknesses and their strengths ...