Olivia

Narrow houses, steep stairs, rooms where everything is within reach without moving, the quarter fits the way she works. The pressure comes from bodyweight rather than effort, which is why it lasts the full ninety minutes without fading. English only, used well and used sparingly, mostly in the first ten minutes. Good company at a table, and considerably better in a quiet room with the lamps turned down. There is no flourish anywhere in the hour, and that is the whole of the recommendation.

Olivia 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 across central Amsterdam, most often around Oud-Zuid, and she does not keep a studio. Sessions run from a single hour to the eight-hour overnight.