When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.
Winner of the Booker Price
With an introduction by John Burnside
"One of the best and most important writers writing in English... dazzlingly entertaining and inventive" The Times