The Lost Time Cafe Author:Elizabeth Wilson Thriller and fantasy combine at the close of the twentieth century in a British coastal city of blistering heat and boiling political hostilities. Justine returns from California to investigate the mysterious death of her father, a former communist, and his student lodger, Anna. In her search, she encounters the last survivors of her father'... more »s old communist tradition, and the transgressive bohemians of the depoliticised new order - Myra, the transsexual tarot-reader, Gennady, the Russian migrant worker, and Lennox, the enigmatic jailbird.
She explores the threatening disorder that lies beneath the glittering surface of the hedonistic but rotting city of their dreams, and as she does so is forced also to confront the uncomfortable truth of her own desires.« less