Salley Vickers

Violet Hetherington joins a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet.

When Peter Hansome dies in a car crash, he leaves behind a wife and a mistress. As the women confront loss, sexuality and illusion, death becomes not an end but a beginning.