![]() ![]() Along the way, our 69-year-old hero finds himself fending off a tiger, having an audience with a famous author who may or may not have been his wife’s lover, getting mugged in a Tube station, and posing naked for an art class. Screwing up his courage, he embarks on a journey that will take him far from his comfort zone as he tracks down the story behind each ornament. All that changes when he happens upon a mysterious gold bracelet-with eight distinctive charms-that belonged to his beloved wife, Miriam. Nothing otherworldly happens in this feel-good debut novel, yet the story of an English widower who goes rummaging in his late wife’s past has the quality of a fable.Ī mild-mannered pensioner from York, the title character-described by an ex-girlfriend as “timid and a bit twitchy”-is tethered to his domestic routines, hardly ever leaving the house. ![]()
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