Katherine Freeman has drifted far from her life as a dancer. His intense passion for his work masks a complicated inner world, and his already fraught relationship with Katherine is further threatened when she falls in love with his young colleague, Stephen Jericho.
Katherine Freeman navigates the world in a dream, drawn one way and another by those who depend on her. When she falls in love with her father's young colleague, Stephen Jericho, Katherine risks everything to explore the extremes of their passionate connection. In this powerful debut, Emily Woof uses her unique descriptive talent and spare prose to examine the human need to engage. This is an exceptional novel about life's choices: love and family, art and commerce, ideals and compromise.