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May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while Cosey is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, powerful, charismatic, shadowy, monstrous, he is himself driven by secret forces – a troubled past and a spellbinding woman, ‘a sporting woman’, named Celestial.Forty years on, the hotel is boarded up and the resort half under water, but Christine and Heed, old women now, bound together by a lifetime of jealousy and pain, are still the Cosey girls, ‘as different as honey from soot. And then Junior comes walking down the street in her short skirts and high boots with a look in her eye … «
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