Outline Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (2003) Edited by Yvonne Guo and

Edited by Yvonne Guo and Jun Jie Woo

The Motley Fool

but rather a thousand years later with the fall of Constantinople

his sadistic brother Peter

what happens when more misfortune strikes

Outline Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (2003) Edited by Yvonne Guo andA woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their