Victoria

02 Who arrives

Victoria, and how she works.

Precision is her habit, the same pressure on the left as on the right, the same minute given to each of you, nothing improvised for effect. In Russian and in English she is a good deal warmer than that description makes her sound. Busy streets with quiet apartments above them suit her, and the bookings she takes there often stretch past the hour they were meant to end. Ask for two therapists and she will have worked out, before her coat is off, who in the room needs what; twenty-eight, and already better at that than most.

Victoria decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.

She works outcall only, your hotel room, your serviced apartment, your own flat. Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled, at any hour. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement.