Brunettes: fifteen names, sorted from lightest to darkest

Light brown, sandy, sun-kissed

Laura is 169 cm and athletic, green eyed, with long light brown hair the sun has lifted at the ends. She walks Osterley most weeks whether she is working or not, and an afternoon start there is the booking she would choose for herself.

Vanessa is 173 cm and slim, hazel eyed, sandy brown with balayage through it, two minutes from Osterley station and good across a long dinner on the Great West Road. Bianka is 165 cm and curvy, hazel eyed, light brown turning sun-kissed at the ends, and the warmest company in the book. She is back on the sixth of October.

Chestnut and caramel brown

Jasmin is chestnut brown, 160 cm, petite and very straight backed, which makes her read taller than the tape says. Liana wears the same shade straight and long at 167 cm, slim, and works the airport hotels where nothing is ever rushed.

Rosa is chestnut too but curly with it, 160 cm and curvy, and times a riverside table in Twickenham against the tide rather than against the clock. Three women, one colour, three entirely different evenings.

Chocolate, espresso, dark brown

Lucy is 163 cm and slender with long dark brown hair that curls properly rather than politely, and she is the one who meets long haul arrivals at Terminal 5. Margo wears dark brown straight and flat to the shoulders, 166 cm and slim, and starts at ten at night on the Bath Road.

Michelle is 173 cm and curvy with hers ironed flat, and she will tell you which building at the old record works was the pressing plant. Molly is 164 cm and curvy with waves at the ends, and has firm opinions about which row to take at the late screening. Samanta is 174 cm and slim and takes midnight starts in TW3. Sonya is 162 cm, athletic, dark brown and straight, and is back on the eighth of October.

Tiffany is chocolate brown on a petite frame at 169 cm and walks the river into Twickenham from Strawberry Hill. She returns on the fourth of October. Tina is espresso brown, 158 cm, the smallest and quickest name in the book, and starts her Brentford afternoons early.

Brown that is nearly black

Stacy is the tallest woman on this list at 176 cm, slim, with hair that reads black indoors and brown the moment she steps outside. She works TW2 and checks the fixture list before agreeing to a date, which is worth knowing about Whitton and Twickenham in general.

If you want genuine black rather than the dark end of brown, that is a separate list of six and it sits under raven haired.

How to use a list this long

Do not read all fifteen. Pick the postcode you are actually staying in and then the shade, in that order, because the travel out here decides more about an evening than the colouring does. Every district page under TW postcodes names the women anchored there.

Or skip the list entirely. Describe the evening to Iris, say roughly what you are after, and two or three names come back with a reason attached to each. The whole roster is on On The Route and the same seven figures apply to all of it.