From the Booker shortlisted author of The Essence of theThing. Madeleine St Johns new novel is a poignant, perceptive and deliciously funny portrait of modern life and an elegant anatomy of love. Her most beguiling novel to date. Madeleine St Johns poignant and characteristically witty new novel tells the story of three people locked in an unhappy kaleidoscope of emotions and desires, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. Theres Alex, miserable in his cold and calmly professional marriage, unable to leave because of his two children. Next comes Andrew, recently home from ten years in America, leaving an exwife and a beloved daughter on the other side of the world. And finally, theres Barbara, the enchanting and lustrous object of their affections, formidably selfpossessed but strangely aimless and unfulfilled. With elegance and acuity, Madeleine St John chronicles their progress through numerous false starts, reversals and apprehensions the result is a memorable anatomy of desire and its opposite despair.

Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 298.72 g; Dimensions: N/A

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