Publisher's Synopsis
Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995, with the publication of 'The First Stone' and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work and the enduring value of friendship.
