I enjoyed this, but maybe three separate stories.
Set mainly in Brighton in 1968, where a film is being made. The three are a fading alcoholic novelist married to a film director, a semi repressed older gay man who is the film producer, and a young American actress who is the star of the film.
They interact sporadically – the novelist is trying to resurrect her career with a novel based around Virginia Wolf’s suicide, the actress is shagging the pop star male lead in the film, but has a complicated love life. Their lives are all pulled in different directions – the actress has an ex-husband who is a terrorist and is pursued by the police and CIA, the novelist gives up and retreats to a religious order and the producer has a strange encounter with a working class male which changes his life.
The actress ends up dead in the South of France on the run from the law. A trio, coming from and going in different directions.
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