About this story
You play Lotty, who has no money of her own and answers it anyway, then finds three strangers to divide the rent with. Twenty-two chapters in which a February women's club in London becomes an April garden above the bay, and four people who arrived guarding themselves stop bothering.
Who you’ll meet
Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs Fisher and Caroline Dester — the reader is Lotty Wilkins.
How it opens
February rain drew soot down the windows above Shaftesbury Avenue.
The smoking-room held damp umbrellas, old leather chairs, and silence.
You know me from somewhere, I think.
Choose
I see you each Sunday with the parish children.
We both endure Hampstead and this weather.