Naomi May

Naomi May new novel, That Sweet Golden Clime, will be published next year.

Story: ‘Visitors’

Naomi May, 5 July 1984

Seen from a helicopter or from an aeroplane the garden appeared to be no more than a green shape amid arid country where there was a reservoir and quarries and a private airstrip. Just beyond the garden on the far side of the house was a red tennis-court and a swimming-pool that was not properly regulated, so that even from the air it looked slimy.

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