London Lovers is an account of a woman's search for sensual and social liberation. The novel follows Florence Jones from South Wales in the 1930s and '40s to the literary London of the 1970s and '80s, re-creating the story through the twists and loops of memory. A subtle and humorous first-person narrative cuts across chronology and sequence to interweave memories of Florence's marriage and love-life and her affair with the American scholar Mick Solomon, which lasts from their meeting until his death fifteen years later.