Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . Every smallest detail is cherished, as step by step the narrative moves towards its tragicomic outcome.

I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch .