When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman,a documentary film maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The filmmaker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.
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Linda Grant
Linda Grant é autora de cinco livros de não ficção e sete romances. Ela ganhou o Orange Prize for Fiction em 2000 e o Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage em 2006. The Clothes on Their Backs foi finalista do Prêmio Man Booker em 2008 e ganhou o South Bank Show Award. The Dark Circle foi indicado para o Prêmio Feminino de Ficção de 2017. Seu último romance, A Stranger City, foi publicado em 2019. Linda Grant vive em Londres.
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