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Joe Coverdale’s desperate infidelities have lost him his family and one particular affair has jeopardised his civil service career. While his wife debates whether to come back to him and his bosses try to decide his future, if any, Joe sinks into the gloomy depths of self-justification and self-recrimination. Like the women around him in the smart West London square, Joe is at home all day. Gradually his life becomes enmeshed with theirs, especially with the life of Mrs Mulvaney, a devout Irish Catholic with mystic tendencies, whose terrorist brother suddenly arrives to add a layer of danger and intrigue to Joe’s already troubled existence…