Dimensions
143 x 224 x 29mm
It is a cold afternoon in winter; a seventy-year-old man sits in a room high above the sea, watching the sun set over rolling waves. It is twenty-four hours since the death of his wife at Seton Castle, the home they have shared for more than forty years. And as it grows dark he tries to make sense of a life only recently understood; and to explain how he, by no means a violent man, has come to kill in cold blood after almost half a century of contented married life.
But answers don't come easily. And explanation involves a return to the events of five decades ago, when as a talented young violinist he fell in love with Ella - his wife's cousin - and she with him. He must remember their love in all its power and fragility; and he must try to understand the test she set him and the tragic consequences of his success for them both.
Set against a backdrop of smart young London, of bohemian Prague and the isolated world of Seton Castle itself, 'The Drowning People' is a lyrical and painful novel about guilt, responsibility and first love.
