''It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth''s calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn''t open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ''

Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the Seventies and Eighties.

And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.