Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Interior
Look At It This Way
Masai Dreaming
In Every Face I Meet
Leading the Cheers
Half in Love
White Lightning
The Promise of Happiness
Copyright © 2007 by Justin Cartwright
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Bloomsbury USA, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
Excerpt from “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets, copyright © 1942 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
“Reason To Believe,” Words and Music by Tim Hardin, Copyright © 1966 (Renewed) Allen Stanton Productions and Alley Music Corp. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
Excerpt from To the Lighthouse from Virginia Woolf, copyright 1927 by Harcourt, Inc. and renewed 1954 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR.
First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2007
This e-book edition published in 2010
E-book ISBN: 978-1-59691-972-3
www.bloomsburyusa.com
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
PART TWO
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
POSTSCRIPT
AFTERWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR