The booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger returns with a literary, psychologically complex novel of suspense.
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer many years earlier, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man.
Glyn's work as a hist orian should have inured him to unexpected findings and reversals, but he is ill-prepared for this radical shift in perception and the feelings it evokes: Rage. Jealousy. Humiliation. His mind fills with questions: Who was this man? Who took the photograph? Where was it taken? When? Had Kath planned for him to find out all along?
As Glyn begins to search for answers, the certainties of past and present slip away, and the picture of the woman he thought he knew changes forever.