Quercus Books

'A strange, brilliant work' Kazuo Ishiguro.

'A masterful novel' Melvyn Bragg.

'An enigmatic novel that transports the reader somewhere unexpected' New Books Magazine.

'Burns captures the photographer's obsession with form and light quite brilliantly and the story gets appealingly strange and dark ... technically it's a very fine piece of writing' Bookbag.

'Burns' description of the intricate and delicate sword play of seduction is suspenseful and compelling' Red Online.

'The crisis is beautifully set up, in a pattern of imagery that both advances the plot and functions in its own right, with a control and cumulative power that make the novel compelling' Fiction Uncovered.

'If I was a Booker judge, I'd put this on the longlist' Farm Lane Books.

It begins on a quiet city street. A young woman is robbed, with the crime witnessed by a man holding a camera. In the aftermath, victim and voyeur meet.

It ends six months later, by which point both their lives - and the way they choose to live them - have changed irrevocably.

This is the story of what happened in between.

Christopher Burns is the author of five previous novels and a collection of short stories. He lives with his wife near the western edge of the English Lake District.