Hot off the press from the huge success of }NW{, this is another remarkable work of fiction from the bestselling author. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia, bizarrely located in Willesden, NW London, this absorbing and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger, more extraordinary questions. 'One of the handful of novelists writing at present who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will 'last'' }Times{