A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it’s time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a story of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it? Margriet de Moor, the grande dame of Dutch literature, tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity—and the possibility of new beginnings.
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O autorze
Margriet de Moor had a career as a classical sinter before making her fiction debut in 1988. She has written many novels including The Virtuoso, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Storm and The Duke of Egypt. Her work has been translated into twenty-four languages.