bA gin-fueled love story with one part iOne Dayi mixed with one part Zadie Smith and a splash of Ali Smithb. p bIncluded in the iGuardiani's Top Ten books about unrequited loveb p Alright I said, I'll try... This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes iCaroline's Bikinii a swirling cocktail of infatuation, obsession, and imagination. The moment that Emily's friend Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford - a glamorous former horsewoman, and now housewife, hostess, and landlady - there is a bPING b At least, that's how Evan describes it to Emily when he persuades her to record his story the story of falling into unrequited love, which is as old as Western literature itself. Thus begins a hypnotic series of conversations set against the beguiling backdrop of West London's bars, fueled in intensity by endless gin and tonics and QAs. From the depths of mid-winter to July's hot swelter, Emily's narration of