Book description
A freezing room in a student house, a sagging mattress on the floor,
and two people, one nineteen, the other twenty, kissing passionately.
All night.
It is to this scene that, twenty years later, Rosy, the narrator of
Julie Myerson's astonishing new novel, returns obsessively. She has
just lost a child in a terrible, careless accident, and Tom, her
partner, has taken her to Paris to forget about things, to start
again.
It has snowed in the night and, waking at dawn, Rosy decides to go
for a walk. At the hotel desk there's a note for her: 'I'm waiting for
you X.' And he is, sitting in the corner of a café she enters almost
at random. They talk. He touches her. She turns away and when she
looks again he is gone.
Was he there? Had she dreamed him? And why, when he emails her out
of the blue two days later, does he write as though they haven't met
for twenty years?
Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960. She is the author of
Sleepwalking
(1993),
The Touch
(1996),
Me and the Fat Man
(1998),
Laura Blundy
(2000),
Something Might Happen
(2003)
Out of Breath
(2008) and
Then
(2012). She lives in London.
