Faber & Faber Stowaways : From The Global selling Author Of Call Me By Your Name

This contemporary twist on A Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been. 'Maybe we love people because they won't let us know them.'A summer's evening in Manhattan.Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heat's hold on the city.Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher.That's when it arrives. An email with the subject line: 'From Paul Axel'. An email about a dead man from Chloe - a woman Julian has never met.Paul has left a message he'd like her to relay. Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Chloe, fulfilling Paul's final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed.A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.