As they begin to talk about themselves and their backgrounds, they feel compelled to invent stories of lives very different from their own. Both have children and marriages- but not love-on the dole in contemporary Dublin. Both are aware that the fables they tell one another are just that-fabulous tales designed to present the teller in a more seductive light.
Gradually, they become drawn in by each other's stories. Talking, loving and weaving tales-exotic, sexual, and guilt-ridden-they stoke the fires of a burgeoning affair.
"Two spoofers," Tess thinks to herself. "It might even be fun ..."
It is-and so is their story-telling.
