A Natural CuriosityJanuary 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass murderer in a high security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and character crept into obsession? Meanwhile, Alix's life continues to cross and uncross with her old friends Liz and Esther, now all in their fifties. As the years pass, they increasingly question the brutally prosperous and atrocity hungry society they live in, and