From the glamour of Glyndebourne to murder in Greece – a woman’s intriguing quest to find the husband who divorced her Katie Kitamura’s first novel, _The Longshot_, was set in the closed, masculine universe of martial arts, while her second, _Gone to the Fores_t, was a fable of destruction set in an allegorical, unnamed country. This third novel also takes place in an attenuated world stiff with custom: that of the English upper classes and their sorrowful literary offspring. Here, everyone lives in the same neighbourhood, attends Glyndebourne and a round of dinner parties, and there are neither politics nor bills. Jobs have atrophied – publishers commission books with no deadlines – and so have gender roles. Our narrator accepts that a mother with three children is ipso facto “always in need of help and companionship”; that men only “achieve a little privacy [on] the shores of infidelity”; and that sex while menstruating is quite impossible. Continue reading...
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