Dane Kingston could both enrage and arouse Petra. Petra had worked hard to achieve the equality she had with the camaramen. Even if Dane was the show's producer, he had no right to destroy her relationship with the crew. But she still couldn't resist his rugged attractiveness, nor ignore the fact that his well-publicised affair with the show's star, Ruby Gale, filled her with jealousy...

In this engaging memoir the awardwinning crime fiction writer, tells the story of his life growing up in an English working-class family during the Depression. It is a moving portrait of adolescence in a pre-war England plagued by the class structure and restrictions that would give rise to the social revolution of that time.

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.