A Mild Suicide

Edinburgh 1977. The end of an era. The end of the postwar boom. The end of the sexual revolution. But for Saul and Catherine, postgraduate students meeting at the departmental party at the university, it seems like a beginning of sorts. Their attraction to one another is instantaneous, and the affair that follows at first seems all-absorbing – a heady mix of sexual desire and literary passions. But then the arrival of Saul’s wife, Virginia, from New York, introduces darker notes of built and doubt, as the lovers find themselves increasingly enmeshed in their clandestine liaison.