TransitIn the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions personal, moral, artistic, practical as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to

How can a man and woman be together

“I’m not asking you to build something impossible

But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith

But at the heart of her life is a hole - a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood

an intelligence operation now at risk from a German masterspy

when she finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with the dashing and seductive Thomas Seymour

she came to be childless

She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities

author of The Yellow Birds

it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines_the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war_as heart-wrenching personal truth

greedy magician moves into the town