Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her self-confident brothers & as an adult her choices are disapproved of
- the small art gallery she works for the friends she makes the men she sees. Mossy
- lumbered with a childhood nickname that stuck
- is never the fixed point; not for her most recent lover or for the mother whose approval she craves. Instead she lives on the edges of things. On a whim she takes up an offer to scout for holiday properties in Bulgaria escaping the impending second wedding of her perfect brother
- & a horrifying episode in her past. Poignant & absurd sharp & wry Janet Daveys luminous prose charts the complications of family relationships with insight & extraordinary tenderness. As Anita navigates difficult waters we begin to understand her past & little by little see her come through.