Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia mercurial professor
of literature mother to two of his pupils married and the love of his life. After years of
their secret affair they stepped out together on top of the world full of delight in one
another and in the future they imagined. Or was it only Dan who imagined it really? He never
had the chance to find out because a few days into their adventure a single phone call changed
everything. Now at the height of summer with only a rucksack a few pages of DH Lawrence
that had been Julia's and his private strata of memory and forgetting Dan is back on the
trail. Step by step with a tumult of emotions jostling with the demands of the dramatic Alpine
landscape he reckons with what his life is and what it might have been had he been a
different man with different choices. 'A writer operating at the height of his powers. One
follows the twists and turns of this story of discovery and self-discovery in a sustained state
of delight' J.M. Coetzee 'An intensely satisfying novel superbly crafted' Nicholas Shakespeare
