From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate
exploration of marriage devotion and sacrifice and a woman's enduring search for freedom.
'One of our best novelists' Daily Mail 'A superb achievement' Guardian 'Moving...and beautiful'
Irish Times Anita is a talented sous-chef at a high-end London restaurant. At home however
her husband Patrick is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly. As she is thrown between
two conflicting worlds Anita must make a decision: should she free them both by acting on his
last plea for mercy or should she remain faithful to the person Patrick used to be? It's a
decision complicated by ambition and the guilt of her own past - and by her intensifying
friendship with another man Peter and the temptation of a new life.
