What is the difference between friendship and love?
Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late...
'A perfect novel about life's imperfection... Tremain is writing at the height of her inimitable powers...' Kate Kellaway, Observer
'Heartbreaking, unsentimental and beautifully written, and it reinforces my opinion that there are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain.' John Boyne, The Irish Times
- ISBN10 1444831453
- ISBN13 9781444831450
- Publish Date 1 February 2017 (first published 19 May 2016)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Charnwood
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 354
- Language English