Dimensions
134 x 215 x 26mm
The place is Liverpool, a dying port facing the Atlantic.
Alix Rebick, tough, arrogant, angry, is a survivor of the sexual revolution, but at forty-nine is resigned to spending the rest of her life alone. Returning to the bedside of her dying mother, Alix receives a final message - forcing her to uncover the family secrets that lie in pre-war Dresden.
Joseph Shields, an American architect of Liverpool's restoration, is in a war - with the city's underworld, with his wife back in Chicago who has left him, and with his own memories of his time as a combat soldier. What he is not interested in is an affair with the woman who unlocks the city's secrets for him and who is consumed by erotic desire for the American stranger.
As they struggle to come to terms with the flawed truths of their own middle-aged lives, each is forced to confront the choices they made long ago.
From the Orange Prize-winning author, 'Still Here' is an exhilarating story of lust, cities, war and emigration.
