Ivan Cotroneo Books

This novel takes Virginia Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving across the decades and between England and America, the story explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.

'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.