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A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience. Meg Williams is 'a bankrupt accountant - two words you don't want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV'. She's 45 and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill, where she can see London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety. Somewhere out there is Jon, pinballing around the city with a mobile phone and a letter-writing habit he can't break. He's a man on…
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5 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 2001Jonathan Cape Ltd · 515 pages · 9780224098441
- Other · English · 2017Penguin Random House · 528 pages · 9780099587439
- Other · English · 2016Little a · 479 pages · 9781503936515
- Other · English · 2016Penguin Random House · 9781448182862
- Hardcover · German · 2018Süßer ErnstCarl Hanser Verlag · 560 pages · 9783446260023
Man-woman relationshipsFictionFiction, romance, contemporaryMan-woman relationships, fictionLondon (england), fictionNew York Times reviewed













