You needn’t be so scared. she had said to me. ‘Love doesn’t end….

This frank, intense account of a love affair and its mystical aftermath is set in a suburb of London, and told with the intimate informality of the first person.

The story tells of the strange and callous steps taken by a middle-aged writer to destroy or perhaps reclaim the mistress who had unaccountably left him eighteen months before.

‘For me one of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language’ William Faulkner

Cover Illustration by Paul Hogarth