Persephone in the Underworld

At nineteen, Persephone does the London season, the summer season, waiting on tables in a French bistro.  Other girls may be sent out quite unprepared into a merciless world, but with Persephone, it is the merciless world which has to be prepared.  Her credentials in living up to her outlandish name, queen of the underworld, are honed here in seamy, steamy Soho.