An attraction to danger prompts Ella de Vries, a stunning obsidian-eyed beauty who dances with the Royal Ballet, to fall in love with Donny McLeod, the Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who \'believes in nothing\'.
Comic and frightening, satirical and poetic, Eating Air is Pauline Melville\'s most audacious work yet..
When Donny reappears, Ella becomes the catalyst for a series of events the final outcome of which is as shocking as it is unexpected.
The unruly nature of love re-unites her with Hector, a former housemate torn over whether to make common cause with Islamic extremists in attacking a bank.
A new kind of terrorist is active.
The economy is in freefall.
Over thirty years later Ella returns.
Donny goes wandering.
Special Branch infiltration leads to a violent crime that sends Ella into self-imposed exile in Brazil.
They move into a household of political radicals and become casually drawn into extremism.
It is the 1970s.
An attraction to danger prompts Ella de Vries, a stunning obsidian-eyed beauty who dances with the Royal Ballet, to fall in love with Donny McLeod, the Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who \'believes in nothing\'
