Empathy is a luxury few people can afford. Malcolm, an ageing hairdresser whose love for his Alzheimers-victim lover is fading fast, is too oppressed by his domestic life to notice the world outside. Alison, his colleague, is blithely innocent; she believes that hairdressing brings happiness, and doesn't understand pain. Both are in their own way blind, until a colleague's neo-fascist murder unites them on an emotional journey - to the Auschwitz Museum, where they are forced to confront the suffering of others, and to face the possibility of life. Unexpectedly witty, devastatingly frank, this is a brave and extraordinarily enjoyable novel by an acclaimed and exceptional writer.
- ISBN10 0747266891
- ISBN13 9780747266891
- Publish Date 4 October 2001 (first published 9 March 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Review
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English