An accountant, wife, and mother, Rebecca "Beki" Tempest led an uneventful life of middle-class leisure, happy to live in a way in which nothing exciting or traumatic ever occurred, until one boring party turned everything upside down. Plagued by a series of bizarre misfortunes, with her son lay dying and her husband straying, Beki was driven to the edge of suicide, until a perpetually drunk man appears and, like a snake oil salesman, offers a seemingly impossible salvation. Left without a choice, she follows him into a world of hedonistic immortals who saw her life - as well as every other...