“[A] silvery, suggestive novella of love and friendship. The year is 1944, the place is London, and all the young men are at war. We find ourselves at Horsham Science College with a group of women . . . Read if you like: Sally Rooney, E.M. Forster, the Todd Haynes film Carol.” —Molly Young, The New York Times
An unheralded queer classic set in wartime London—“Han Suyin’s outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel.” (Alison Hennegan)
As a college student in London during the bitterly col...






















