A follow up to the The Secret History .

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who recall their shared adolescence.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. This is the story of love, friendship and memory, with a sense of the fragility of life.

Masterly American novelist at the height of her powers with a 1930s story inspired by the real-life Christopher Robin.

This story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and as his country's Robin Hood.

Made for each other, clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.