Girl In a Birdcage

Class, religion and sex are packed into one short summer. Twenty-eight years old and married, reserved Hannah spends time at the local tennis club. Its members are wildly eccentric and often hilarious, but with her barrister husband away during the week she leads a solitary life. Besides, she only married him to placate her Mother, whose voice echoes in her mind from beyond the grave.But when Hannah falls passionately in love with a priest and discovers orgasmic sex, she feels that she has found herself. The beauty of love justifies anything . . . or does it?