From the Booker short-listed author of The Essence of theThing.
Madeleine St John's 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 John's
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. There's 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 ex-wife and a beloved daughter on the other
side of the world. And finally, there's Barbara, the enchanting and
lustrous object of their affections, formidably self-possessed 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.
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