Douglas Kennedy’s new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of Happiness and A Special Relationship were both Sunday Times bestsellers in paperback.

That was the year my life fell apart and that was the year I moved to Paris.

When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live Harry swiftly falls in with the city’s underclass barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he’d always dreamed of writing.

A chance meeting with a mysterious woman Margit Kadar with whom Harry falls in love is his only hope of a brighter future. However Margit isn’t all she seems to be and Harry soon has to make a decision that will alter his life forever.


From the Trade Paperback edition.