This title includes the complete BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award-winner Laura Solon. 'The writing is as fresh as a cowslip, as sharp as a kitchen-knife, and sometimes as coarse as a fishwife' - "The Telegraph". '...moments of twisted genius' - "Observer". '"Talking and Not Talking" is very clever' - "Times". 'Solon's series stood out for its self-assurance, its unforced oddness...' - "Independent". 'She's a remarkable talent'...
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy. Sequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in winter, in the absence of others. And then Gilly appears.