'A singular novel from the poetic and painterly mind of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.' Sharlene Teo
author of Ponti'An exquisite rendering of love sadness and misunderstanding . . . I want to
share this book with everyone I know.' The Paris Review'A quiet triumph - tenderly and
disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love loneliness what it is to feel lost' Sophie
Mackintosh author of The Water CureMina is staring over the edge of the George Washington
Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump
but they don't believe her. Her husband Oscar is called to pick her up.Oscar hopes that
leaving New York for a few months will give Mina the space to heal. They travel to London to
an apartment wall-papered with indigo-eyed birds to Oscars oldest friends to a canal and
blooming flower market. Mina a classicist searches for solutions to her failing mental health
using mythological women. But she finds a beam of light in a living woman. Friendship and
attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina's complicated love is tested.
