Rating

★★★★☆

Read

2025-02-23

Pages

589

Fun easy read, smashed it on the plane.

‘Would you like the detailed answer, or the simple answer?’ asks Ibrahim. ‘The simple answer please, Ibrahim,’ says Elizabeth without hesitation. Ibrahim pauses. Perhaps he had phrased his question poorly?

Chris wondered whether this was a tragic plan, or simply the sort of plan that people would think was tragic. Was he a content man, doing the things he liked alone? Or was he a lonely man, making the best out of what he had? Alone, or lonely?