Slim and slender: ten names, ordered by the notice they want

Stacy is the short notice name here and rather enjoys being it. 176 cm, near black hair worn very long, early twenties, dry, and most nights she can be across town before you have finished a second drink. Two hours at £500 buys a bar, a comedy room over a pub and something to eat after it. The room is confirmed while she is still in the cab.

Liana is unhurried by nature and a day's warning treats her far better than an hour's does; £700 buys three hours, a bookshop and a long dinner with no clock anywhere in it. Vanessa is best booked for an evening given more time than it strictly needs. Patricia prefers a day or two, a bar, a screening and the walk afterwards, and her evenings through Bloomsbury are the quietest bookings the desk writes.

Margo and Violetta both work in stretches, and both carry a return date on their pages rather than a standing week. Margo is still in company in a way that slows a room down; Violetta is thirty, precise and exceptionally dry. Evenings after a landing date are held the ordinary way, or on half when the booking runs through to morning, and the desk says which applies before anything moves.

Notice is the most useful thing on this page and the easiest to fix. Two dates beat one, an hour range beats a single time, and a sentence about the kind of night you want beats a list of names. Send those three things and the answer names whoever can genuinely do it rather than whoever looks likeliest on a page.