Dancing Backwards - Salley Vickers

Another wonderful novel from Salley Vickers, spent in the company of Violet Hetherington and her fellow passengers on a transatlantic cruise. Wherein we discover that still waters run deep.

If you like Anita Brookner, you'll like this. And vice versa. And you'll learn the idiomatic origins of a number of familiar phrases.

Amazon.co.uk link: Dancing Backwards - Salley Vickers