When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up. I'd really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that. Wry yet vulnerable, Beatrice Jordan isn't the sort of woman who usually answers personal ads but she is unable to resist the following: 'If your intentions are pure, I am seeking a friend for the end of the world.' In doing so, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent thirty-something writer, a free spirit who is a passionate seeker of life. He possesses his own turn of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonise with Beatrice's off-centre vision as they roller coaster through the joys and furies of their heart-wrenching romance. Along the way they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
- ISBN10 074993378X
- ISBN13 9780749933784
- Publish Date 29 May 2003 (first published 28 November 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 February 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 336
- Language English