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From a rising British novelist an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary LondonWhen 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. As David plays reluctant witness and more to James and Ruths escalating love affair he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life. Set in the London 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 Lairds insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the ineluctable fault lines of desire truth deceit and jealousy. With wit compassion and acuity Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance- The Death of Love in Modern Culture as David puts it in one of his dyspeptic blog posts-among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.Binding: HardcoverAuthor: Nick Laird