A remarkable novel. Witty, even cynical, observation leads to a conclusion profoundly moving. - Graham Greene
Read is undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of our generation. - Francis King
[A] profoundly serious contemporary writer whose merits . . . are consistently underrated. - D. J. Taylor
All dark velvet and dry ice . . . If you are caught up by it, as I was, you will devour it at a single sitting and savor its resonances. - New York Times
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A remarkable novel. Witty, even cynical, observation leads to a conclusion profoundly moving. - Graham Greene
Jomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated, he lives alone in London, mourning the disintegration of his marriage as he broods about the past and the present. When he falls for Judith, things begin to improve.
Jomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated, he ...
