The Immortal Moment: The Story of Kitty Tailleur

At the Cliff Hotel in Southbourne, Kitty Tailleur moves through the lobby like a woman carrying secrets everyone is desperate to uncover. She is enchanting, enigmatic, and utterly unreadable to the other guests. When the youthful Lucys arrive, Robert and his sister Jane, they cannot help but watch her, speculate about her, wonder. Who is this woman? What has she done? What might she do? May Sinclair constructs a exquisite psychological drama from the raw material of curiosity, attraction, and social judgment. The novel pulses with the tension of perception: how we see others, how we missee them, and the ways gossip both creates and destroys reputation. Through Kitty's encounters with the Lucys and others, Sinclair excavates the dangerous territory between what is spoken and what is true, between the roles we perform and the selves we hide.