LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TOM HOLLANDER AND SASKIA REEVES
'Perfect'
INDEPENDENT
'A literary tour de force'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Compulsively readable, formally inventive, extremely funny yet achingly melancholy'
THE TIMES
'Heartrendingly romantic and bittersweet'
SUNDAY MIRROR
'A sad, funny, soulful joy'
OBSERVER
Douglas and Connie: scientist and artist, husband and wife - until, suddenly, after more than twenty years, their marriage seems to be over.
But Douglas is going to win back the love of his wife and the respect of Albie, their teenage son, by organising the holiday of a lifetime. The hotels are booked, the tickets bought, the itinerary planned and printed.
What could possibly go wrong?