Annabel,an artist adrift in the political and sexual crosscurrents of the 1960s and the whirling undertow of her mind,falls into marriage with blithely adulterous lee and his dangerous brother buzz. Even in the cocoon of an english university town,their relationship evolves into obsession, betrayal,deceit,voyeurism,violence and suicide. This is what love is all about. Angela carter wrote this novel in 1969- in an afterword written more than fifteen years later she follows her characters into the present and provocatively proposes that unrequited love is the essence and revenge of heterosexuality. OM