While he walked to the tube station, she was upstairs leaning over the pummelling tap. With her hair tied up, she stirred the water with her hand. She was thinking of tomorrow morning, of the taxi to Liverpool Street. Of the train through east London and the flat landscape of Essex. Of the light-filled airport.
Acknowledgements
As always, I would like to thank Dan Franklin, Alex Bowler and everyone at Jonathan Cape, and my agent, Anna Webber.
About the Author
David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974. He is the author of London and the South-East, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Innocent. In 2010, the Telegraph listed him as one of the twenty best British novelists under forty. He lives in London.