Publisher's Synopsis
In the long hot summer of 1976, seven years after the suicide of her lover, Lenny, Alice is leading a quiet, almost reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. Then, out of the blue, Lenny's comic partner, Jack turns up on her doorstep. Alice has not seen him since Lenny's funeral, but her surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking heavily. At the same time a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire lake...
