Getting Colder

They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who abandoned her two children to fulfil her destiny as Patrick''s beautiful, devoted wife and muse.

Thirty-five years later, Sara''s death leaves Patrick alone in their crumbling house in Cornwall, with his whisky, his writer''s block and his undimmed rage against the world. But bereavement is no respecter of life''s estrangements, and Sara''s c...