© Kniha Zlin, 2011
When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt and heartbreak.
Set in the London's art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the fault lines of desire, truth and jealousy. With wit and compassion, he explores the very nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
Fourth Estate 2009
Translated into: Italian, Czech
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