A beautiful (short) novel, about a couple who were literally a couple at university, meet in later life when he is married, have a brief affair, and then return to his wife.
Beautifully written and the peripheral characters are so interesting, perhaps more so than the protagonists, although they are nice enough.
Ben’s disappearance at the end is a shock; he has returned to his wife to ditch her but turns into the clichéd male lover quite unexpectedly.
Patrick Gale is very good.
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