Later, he insists on bringing them to his house where they meet his wife Caroline. One evening, the couple gets lost among the canals and is befriended by a forceful native named Robert, who takes them to a bar. Although they do not usually live together, their relationship is deep, passionate and intimate, but they seem to be bored. Mary is divorced with two children Colin is her angelically handsome lover who has been with her for seven years.
Mary and Colin are an English couple on holiday abroad in an unnamed city. Harold Pinter adapted it as a screenplay for a film directed by Paul Schrader in 1990 ( The Comfort of Strangers), which starred Rupert Everett, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren and Natasha Richardson. It is his second novel, and is set in an unnamed city (though the detailed description strongly suggests Venice). The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. Cover art: Turner, Grand Canal Venice After Sunset, 1839
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