An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman
is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada and struggling to understand his
grown-up daughter Leila he finds himself on a train to London at the invitation of the
police. He is to meet Raf a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral -
and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap?
Compelling and compassionate this novel follows Mr Burman's journey towards the mystery of a
radical act and into the true nature of his own family. It asks what a person leaves behind
when they've gone and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.
