NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A thrilling new psychological drama from Scotiabank Giller Prize
winner Linden MacIntrye, weaving threads of crime, disability and
dementia together into a tale of unrequited love and delusion.
Two old friends, who first met in university, get together for a weekend
of golfing: Allan, a football hero, worldly and financially successful,
and his quieter friend, nicknamed Byron, lame from a childhood injury, a
smart fellow who became a lawyer but who has never left home, staying
put so he could care for a mother with Alzheimer's.
During a long night of drinking, the fault lines between them start to
show. One of the biggest: the two men married sisters, though Allan was
the one who walked down the aisle with Peggy, the sister both of them
loved, and Byron had to settle for Annie.
Out on the course the next morning, Allan suffers a stroke. In one
traumatic moment, he loses control of his life, his wife and his
business empire, which turns out to have been built on lies and the
illegal drug trade. And Byron has to suddenly confront his own
weaknesses and strengths, his tangled relationship with Allan and the
Winter sisters--both the one he married and the one he thought was the
love of his life. No one will anticipate the lengths to which Byron will
go to make sense of his life.
