15 Monday Morning Monday, 15th July 2002 Belsize Park, London t seven o'clock in the morning, Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley were lying awake in bed. They were thinking their own thoughts. They were now living together most of the time. Emma still kept her own flat, but at last they were close friends and lovers as well, and really, life was good for them both. Emma's thoughts that morning were about the 15th July the previous year. She thought about that and about what had happened since then. Dexter's visit to Paris had been difficult at the start. But she had quickly realized that she hadn't really moved on from him and that probably she wasn't able to move on from him. So she'd finished her relationship with her French boyfriend. Dexter had stayed with her in Paris for the whole summer and they'd returned to London as a couple. These days, Emma usually slept in Dexter's flat in Belsize Park and during the daytimes, she went to her own flat, two miles away. She rode there on her bicycle and wrote her books there. Emma's series of books about Julie Criscoll was selling very well. The television version of them was popular too, so Emma was almost rich now. During the daytimes, Dexter now ran a successful delicatessen 4 and café in Highgate, another fashionable part of north London. Emma knew that he had hated doing menial jobs when he worked for Callum O'Neill. But now he seemed