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Friendship, liberty, booze and student loans: the glory days of University or college, the halcyon haze. For friends Liz, Cora, Mike and Stevie, students at Cardiff, that haze was distributed, their circle tight, a surrogate family, bound jointly for three idyllic, hedonistic years in total trust. Or so it felt. Mike and Cora marry after graduation, while Liz and Stevie look on, misty-eyed. The newlyweds move again across the boundary, Liz starts a career in journalism, and the group 'continues to be in touch' with growing distance as the exercises of work and Mike and Cora's presumed home bliss colonise their daily lives.A few years on, the group reunites, with Mike and Cora time for are in Cardiff. The foursome paints the town, marking Stevie's birthday within an orgy of nostalgia. Because they drink and dance, from nowhere, a beautiful - and young - flame-haired gal looks. This 'Jenny' seems to recognise them, is aware of their names...but her identity's a total mystery to them all. Or so Liz and Cora think. Then Mike and Jenny vanish from the club; and he will not make it home that nighttime. His innocent next-day reason doesn't quite band true...and then Jenny reappears. As the corpse, found by the river, bad play presumed. Liz is assigned to cover the story, and confirms herself swept up in an expanding web of lays, as Jenny's loss of life is traced back again to that fateful nighttime. Dangers of blackmail and a nervous breakdown on Cora's part follow.As mutual suspicion mounts, the old secrets of the college days start to meet up with them all...and Liz begins to contemplate a extreme last solution. Unrequited love and murderous motives meet, in a tangle of fear and misunderstandings that threatens not simply Mike and Cora's matrimony, but the four friends' valued recent. A murder enigma, packed with surprises, Telling Testimonies subverts and re-invents the chick lit genre in a darker cover from the sun of lipstick, marking the emergence of a significant new speech in English fiction.
