Richard,a recently bereaved man takes himself off to Dove Dale in search of some kind of inner peace and comes across an unconscious women in the woods. Unable to get her as far as help he takes her to his tent, leaves her, not to get help, but to collect her rucksack, but when he returns to the tent she's gone.
A series of slightly odd behaviours and implausible coincidences are the foundation of this novel, which despite all I've said, bowls along between Leicestershire and Brunei at quite a nice pace. Sadly at the peak of the action, Richard decides to forget everything that has happened to him and get on with his life back home, leaving both him and the reader in the dark as to why so many alarming events occurred.
But all is not lost! What felt like the last quarter or so of the book is entirely taken up by the new love interest and Richard taking a walk while she explains to him, and us, everything that happened,
This started off as a solid four star novel which dipped alarmingly in the direction of two, but pulled back to three by the quality of the writing itself.
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