College student Nicholas Dal shares the family talent, or curse - he is an empath, a man who experiences the emotions of other people. Too-powerful emotion can induce seizures, so to stay sane he must live alone and dull his senses with vodka.
This, in itself, would be enough for anyone to bear, but Nicholas ias also haunted by a secret from his family's past in Russia. Now someone is looking for him and he fears the worst. To further complicate things, a relationship is forming with a young woman, Jack, and his feelings for her threaten to break through his isolation.
Will Nicholas risk his love, his sanity - his life - to be with Jack?
- ISBN10 0224023497
- ISBN13 9780224023498
- Publish Date 5 December 1986 (first published 1 January 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English