Book description
'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'
Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night
before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his
relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless,
reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys
of trying to make a life with another person.
Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of
Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a
Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts,
Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful
Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other
publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The
Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at his Heart.
