A New York Times Notable Book 2016
An October Indie Next List "Great Reads" Pick
After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer,
copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching
the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the
devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far
richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period
of his greatest happiness--hitch-hiking through France as a young man,
madly in love with his companion, a French girl named Monique--Katrin
embarks on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully
knew.
David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and,
translator. The title story of his North American debut collection of
short fiction, In Another Country: Selected Stories (Biblioasis, 2015)
was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated feature film 45 Years. He
is the author of one previous novel, Davies, as well as four
collections of short stories in the United Kingdom, and five collections
of poetry. He lives in Oxford, England, where until 2012 he edited
Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
