"The most exhilarating novel I've read all year."--Scotland on
Sunday
"A rich story of the heart told through a harlequin pattern of
alternating voices, each of which is a work of real imaginative
insight."--Marie Claire
Christopher and Alexandra's passion for each other raises eyebrows and
invites envy. This beautiful, blinkered couple do the unthinkable and
run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children. Their sudden
departure is an act of glorious willfulness. Life in the countries they
visit is nothing more than a backdrop to their love affair.
Fifteen years later, Alexandra is in remote Bolivia with a lover young
enough to be her son and Christopher is in Venice, desolate and alone
but for the pigeons and prostitutes. Tormented by past mistakes, neither
can accept that they may never meet again.