There is a bookshop on Lamb's Conduit Street that Liana has never once managed to walk past. She is 167 cm and slim, deliberate in everything including the way she crosses a room, and her chestnut brown hair hangs straight to the shoulder without a great deal done to it. The brown eyes are patient enough to slow a whole table down. Late twenties, she dresses quietly and expensively: wool through the winter, linen in summer, flat shoes for walking and low heels for sitting still.
Grace is the first impression and intuition is what people come back for. She reads a mood some time before it has been announced and adjusts without making any performance of the adjustment. Her English is fluent and measured, spoken softly enough that people lean in without realising they have. French novels are the private pleasure, read in French and slowly. Pilates keeps her mornings in order. She grows more on a Marylebone balcony than most people manage in an actual garden.
A weeknight with her belongs in Bloomsbury. She will walk you down Lamb's Conduit Street to the small publisher's shop with the grey spines in the window, spend twenty unhurried minutes in there, then take a table nearby where a conversation can run three hours without anybody proposing somewhere livelier. She orders more or less the same thing every time and is entirely unembarrassed about the habit, which she says is the point of a local.
She lives in Marylebone, fifteen minutes from Bloomsbury on a quiet evening. A day of notice suits her better than an hour, and booking will have the table confirmed before you have finished unpacking.
Her home stage is Marylebone, and she travels from there to the venues this house covers. Her full listing sits with the rest of the company on the companions page.