‘He has a touching access to the secrets of the human heart’ – THE TIMES ‘A wonderful novel – brilliant, witty, touching’ – OK ‘Well written – provocative’ – TIME OUT Richard Faber was born early on 5 October 1949, at the very moment, it turned out, when Donald Hume, small-time racketeer and double murderer, was tipping the segmented body of his first victim out of a light aircraft onto the Essex marshes…Richard Faber was born a thousand miles away from Essex, in Verona, Italy, destined both to become the leading actor of his generation, and to fall in love with a girl half his Maisie Rivers. There was something wild about Maisie, something dangerous as well as beautiful. Richard Faber was always drawn to danger.
