

Being close friends, they knew Molly before she became a famous restaurant critic. The story opens on a chilly February morning, as Vernon Halliday (broadsheet editor) and Clive Linley (British composer) arrive to pay their respects. This is the quiet yet disturbing tale of the unforgettable Molly, her sudden death and the memory she left behind in three former lovers who meet at her funeral. Parliament, chemistry, propeller she could forgive herself, but less so bed, cream, mirror… Molly, restaurant critic, gorgeous wit and photographer, the daring gardener who had been loved by the Foreign Secretary and could still turn a perfect cartwheel at the age of forty-six.”

Within weeks she was fumbling for the names of things. It began with a tingling in her arm as she raised it outside the Dorchester Grill to stop a cab a sensation that never went away.
