Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. But it's not Walker she wants, but her husband Malory who has gone missing. She wants Walker to find him. The author won the 1992 Somerset Maugham Award for "A Book About Jazz".

2004-11-26 A slightly silly book

I like Geoff Dyer and his "But Beautiful" is just astonishing, but this one doesn't quite do it for me. I did enjoy reading it but was left feeling that it was all a bit silly really.