Embers

<p>'Wonderful. Immensely moving' <i>Daily Telegraph</i> <p>As darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final meal together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone. Tonight, as wine stirs the blood, it is time to talk of old passions and that last, fateful meeting. <p>'Extraordinary. Elegiac, sombre, musical and gripping. An immensely wise book' <i>Observer</i> <p>'A masterpiece. Works beautifully as a novel of suspense ... whose denouement is as exciting as a detective tale. It is a thrill to read something so startlingly original' <i>Evening Standard</i> <p>'Utterly compelling. An extraordinary and beautiful novel' <i>Scotsman</i> <p>'One of those novels which stays in the memory long after it has been put down. A masterpiece' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p>