'An exquisite rendering of love, sadness, and misunderstanding . . . ** I want to share this book with everyone I know**.' ** The Paris Review**

'An exquisite rendering of love, sadness, and misunderstanding . . . ** I want to share this book with everyone I know**.' ** The Paris Review**

** _'_A quiet triumph - tenderly and disarmingly exploring the responsibility of love, loneliness, what it is to feel lost' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cur**

** Mina** is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump but they don't believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to pick her up.

** Oscar** hopes that leaving New York for a few months will give Mina the space to heal. They travel to London, to an apartment wall-papered with indigo-eyed birds, to Oscars oldest friends, to a canal and blooming flower market. Mina, a classicist, searches for solutions to her failing mental health using mythological women. But she finds a beam of light in a living woman. Friendship and attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina's complicated love is tested.