Us

They were never an obvious group of friends. Julian came from the most staid of county families, a worn copy of Hobbes' Leviathan his guide to navigating the sinister rituals of public school life. Jake's passage from unassuming suburbia to the dreaming spires of Oxford happened only by chance - and a great cost - while American-born Adrienne was more used to appearing in Vogue than in Oxford's cold and dusty lecture halls. When the three of them arrive at university, it is Julian's sister - Maggie, the righter of wrongs - who brings them together. It is her idea to teach Jake's boyhood tormentor a lesson. But what begins as a game has life-changing consequences for them all.