An Abduction
Fiction by Tessa Hadley: a teen-ager in the ninteen-sixties impulsively goes joyriding with a group of boys.
Tessa Hadley's domestic precision: a mother "immensely capable, tall and big-boned" pruning roses in a "limp linen shirtdress," while her daughter covets the taupe satin stole worn only for concerts and Rotary dinners—making "sultry faces" at herself in the mirror, though sultry was the last thing her mother was.