The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it?
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover.
The gripping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE The inspiration for the major motion picture The Affair, now available on demand. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room.