Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain.
He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only, unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow with Nina, as a guest of the Soviet Artists' Union. It is then that things begin to get very complicated indeed…
- 'Brilliant … marvellous comedy … a tour de force' OBSERVER
- 'A very funny as well as a frightening book' GUARDIAN
- 'Marvellously deft … comedy is secreted everywhere, like honey
- but it is a surreal little honeycomb, with sharp teeth' TLS
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Published 04/12/2003
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