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THE STORY SO FAR: Andrea is the new girl at university in the 1970s, and arrives in the midst of strikes and power cuts. She hears a student has died, but no one seems overly concerned. She’s followed home one night by Keith, a fellow student. Keith’s mum, the cleaner, had asked him to keep an eye on Andrea. Keith is dating a student called Amy, and Amy’s friends think Andrea has her sights set on Keith. One evening, Andrea is paid a visit by Keith, who confides in her that Amy has been acting strangely. Her work has suffered but now her marks are picking up again. Later, Andrea has a headache and goes to Elaine for a painkiller. In Elaine’s room, Andrea notices she is writing a second-year essay – but Elaine is doing a PhD. The following evening, Andrea goes to Amy’s room to put her straight about not wanting to steal her man. But she finds Amy asleep – with the same essay on her desk that Elaine had been writing…

Andrea couldn’t wipe from her memory what she’d seen. Amy, pen in hand, asleep at her desk, her long tresses only partially covering the words on the paper. Words copied from the other papers strewn alongside it, written by someone else. Elaine. So, it looked like Amy was a cheat who