Who would have thought that a short novel about a retired couple's short visit to Amsterdam in a cold January could be so captivating. Stella has an ulterior motive when she booked these couple of days. Their relationship is not straight forward, their memories of what happened in their Northern Ireland homeland surface and punctuate the story. The descriptions of Amsterdam in the grip of winter are well written. The passages when the couple occasionally go their separate ways are tremendous, but nothing compared with the brilliant final section. One of the best last 50 pages I have read for some time.
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