Aifric Campbell è una scrittrice il cui lavoro si addentra nelle complessità dell'esperienza umana, attingendo a un background unico che colma i mondi dell'alta finanza e del mondo accademico. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un acuto intelletto e da un occhio attento alle sottili dinamiche che plasmano le nostre interazioni. I contributi letterari di Campbell sono segnati dalle sue perspicaci esplorazioni della vita contemporanea e dalla sua capacità di creare narrazioni che risuonano profondamente con i lettori.
Jay Hamilton lives a comfortable life in fashionable west London, listening to the minor and major dysfunctions of the over-privileged clients who frequent his psychoanalytic practice. His brother Richard, a genius professor of mathematical linguistics, was apparently killed by rent boys in Los Angeles and Jay was the first on the scene.
Every Sunday, Caro finds herself back in the place where it all began, lured by memory, guilt and all the losses she cannot reconcile. Constantly dwelling on the past, she immerses herself in work, where long hours insulate her from the world. For Caro, the present is two dimensional: it is history that is loaded with colour and scent.Sometimes she tries to get some perspective on those years, going over that terrible summer twenty years ago, when her band of three inseparable friends disintegrated forever. Estelle died two weeks after her fifteenth birthday. It was sudden, violent, shocking. Afterwards, Cormac left and never returned. Now she waits for release, which comes in the form of an unlikely alliance. Aifric Campbell's second novel is filled with longing - for childhood and the liberating power of friendship.
Een jonge vrouw is het verlies van een jeugdvriendin en een jeugdvriend nooit helemaal teboven gekomen en leeft in het verleden.