'An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment ... It continues to haunt me' NATASHA
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STANDARD GRAZIA STYLIST ELLE THE NATIONAL FIVE BOOKS AND BURO A couple drive from London to
coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge
unequal precarious. Luke reserved stoic gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening he
proposes and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to settle
Anya's unease. As a child she escaped from Sarajevo and the idea of security is as alien now
as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return she begins to change. The past
she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces and the hot summer builds to
a startling climax. Lean sly and unsettling Asylum Road is about the many borders governing
our lives: between men and women assimilation and otherness nations families order and
chaos. What happens and who do we become when they break down?
