Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, decides on a whim to go to a dance class. And for a while it looks as if Joe, the shadowy figure she meets there, may tempt her to put her books aside and...

Rebecca Gowers was born in the west of England and brought up south of the Thames in London. She studied English at Cambridge, did graduate research at Oxford on the literature of Victorian police...

“A literary jeu d’esprit in the style of Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr. Y…skittish, stream-of-consciousness prose, ultra-realistic dialogue and a genuinely puzzling historical murder mystery. The romance [between Kit and Joe]…is fresh and clever and very funny.”
— The Guardian Review