FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY,
reissued for the first time in Scribner Bill Unwin, an academic of
dubious status, has never recovered from the death of his famous
actress wife and is now convalescing from a recent brush with his
own mortality. He has two tales to tell. One, spanning post-war
Paris, 1950s Soho and contemporary sexual and scholarly
entanglements, surveys the muddle of his own life. The other, drawn
from the notebooks of a Victorian ancestor, is the very different
story of Matthew Pearce, a serious-minded man whose happiness is
destroyed by his compulsive search for truth. Bill's recollections
of his beautiful wife, his wayward mother and his philandering
stepfather, his wry reflections on his present plight and his
unexpected bond with the forgotten Matthew combine to form a potent
and moving mental quest. Embracing two centuries and a host of
subjects-from ballet dancers and prehistoric beasts to the
bewildering persistence of love-it asks nothing less than the
eternal question: 'Why should things matter?' 'A perfect piece of
literary art' The Spectator 'Masterfully done' Washington Post
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