Paul's beloved wife Lexy is found dead having fallen from the branches of the great apple tree in their back garden. The only witness is her Rhodesian Ridgeback Lorelei. Paul, a university professor in linguistics, is desperate to know why. Did she slip and fall, did she commit suicide. As Paul delves further into his memories of his time with the woman who was everything to him and further into a kind of madness trying to enable Lorelei to tell him what happened he maps beautifully the torments of the shining artistic soul who was the love of his life.
One of few non thriller / action / crime books which has gripped and held me from the first page to the last, poignant, and deeply comforting in that Lexy's feelings of inadequacy, being lost and fearing her own self were a mirror to my own 3am reflections on my self.
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