Bit of a wide boy Terry Got a spot of form eye for the ladies a real rough diamond some might say Not without his virtues though as his campaign for open government shows No secrets that's Terry's secret Allied to charm that is of course Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm & counter his arguments & that's Hilary
- one of the serious & dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home Office in Westminster who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested She despises him & everything he stands for But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters? Now You Know takes on government campaigns ambitious civil servants & determined pressure groups with Frayn's trade-mark wit Michael Frayn's other novels include Headlong which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize & Spies which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award