Richard Wright’s bestselling follow-upto Clara Callan is a quietly brilliant story of infidelity andforgiveness. Daniel Fielding has it all: a charmingwife and daughter, the respect of his co-workers, a nice house in a desirableneighbourhood. What, then, drives him to succumb to the charms of a pretty,young colleague at an overseas book fair? When a passionate indiscretionexplodes into violence, Fielding must confront the ever-widening aftershocks ofhis actions, an uncertain future and his own inner demons. Adultery uncoversthe many shadings of infidelity and the intricacies of emotion that lie justbeneath the surface of ordinary life. Subtle but powerful, it proves once againthat Richard B. Wright is a master storyteller and one of our finest writers.
About the Author
RICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of 11 novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 national bestseller that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and the CBA Libris Awards for Book of the Year and for Author of the Year. He has been awarded the Order of Canada. Richard B. Wright lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Phyllis.