From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.
Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain
to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember.
They know they will face many hazards-some strange and otherworldly-but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them
the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other.
