`A book dealing with modern problems and rightly longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. King is a writer’s writer, his voice utterly convincing’ Beryl Bainbridge, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
Francis King’s provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovan – an illegal immigrant – finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS, while at the same time having an affair with a female doctor and throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Disaster looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector – and is arrested because of his illegal status.
- ISBN10 1447258150
- ISBN13 9781447258155
- Publish Date 21 November 2013 (first published 1 April 2003)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 19 January 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Bello
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 320
- Language English