1920: Britain is trying to forget the Great War. Clementine, who nursed at the front and suffered her own losses, must bury the past and settle for a life of middle class respectability. Then she meets Vincent, an opportunistic veteran whose damage goes much deeper than the painted tin mask he wears to face the world. Powerfully drawn together they enter a deadly relationship that careers towards a dark and haunting resolution.
The latest novel from the author of "Little Egypt", this is set between 1989 and the downfall of Csausescu, and 2013, travelling between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo.
A derelict house, Little Egypt, is home to a pair of nonogenarian twins, Isis and Osiris, whose Egyptologist parents left them there in the 1920s to search for a fabled tomb. They have guarded a terrible secret all their lives, until a chance meeting with a young anarchist proves the catalyst for change. A darkly humorous tale looping from present day England to 1920s Egypt, from an award-winning author.
