In Kay Dick’s debut novel an English woman goes to Paris to forget about love and to embrace the city as one might a Utrillo painting – relishing the bright blue sky, red stripes of café awnings, grey stone of the bridges, and the radiant mobility of the Paris streets. She is ready for any relationship to which her inclination might lead her, and tells in the first person how she meets Pierre the Frenchman and James the Canadian. Contrary to her original intentions, becomes acutely involved with both.

An Affair of Love examines the complexities of love and desire with great intimacy. Kay Dick explores not only the romantic aspects of love but the brutal and factual aspects too – a depiction that, as reviewers noted at the time, had rarely been documented so thoroughly by a female novelist.