“Everything at the party seemed to slide and smudge together. The driving beat of the music, people dancing, and the constantly changing light show of the pool. Body heat, sweat and perfume, and the sweet smell of mangoes saturated the air. Everyone who was wading in the in-ground pool – which stretched from indoors into the outdoors – was being baptised in the intoxicating elixir that was Tate’s farm.”
