The intimate new novel by the bestselling author of Corellis Mandolin is alove story at once raw and sweetly funny wry and heartbreakingly sad. Englandlate 1970... » 

The intimate new novel by the bestselling author of Corellis Mandolin is alove story at once raw and sweetly funny wry and heartbreakingly sad. Englandlate 1970s. Fortysomething Chris is trapped in a loveless sexless marriage.Roza in her twenties the daughter of one of Titos partisans has onlyrecently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening Chris mistakes her for aprostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended she gets into hiscar. Over the next months Roza tellsChris stories of her past. Shes a fasttalking wily Scheherazade saving her own life as she retells itand Chris israpt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantlysubtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling. «