SOLITAIRE

Angels' Share Book 3

A paradox at the heart of things allows lovers to love uncritically and enemies to kill indiscriminately in times of war and in times of pestilence. It’s central to survival, but so is vigilance. Solitaire is the third instalment of a love and death cycle that begins among the vineyards growing on French limestone, where terroir determines character. It ends on the chalk downland of southern England as the bonds that forged Anglo-French couple Bénédicte and Paul crack under the strain of lockdown. Their teenage daughter Dominique delves into her ancestors’ disturbed and dazzling war-time past and Paul’s nemesis appears with the inevitability of a predator pursing its prey.