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'Beautiful, hugely ambitious ... The Living Realm is a novel that rises to its subject: the whole of life' GARTH GREENWELL
'An unflinchingly beautiful novel ... an elegy to friendship, grief and lovers lost' DOUGLAS STUART
The new novel from Jordan Tannahill, the author of The Listeners, The Living Realm follows a British expat in Berlin who begins to see his dead lovers at a lake and cruising ground on the outskirts of the city.
The small glacial lake Teufelssee on the outskirts of Berlin has become an infamous cruising destination. While walking its secret but well-trodden paths one evening, a British expat spots a stranger in the distance who bears an uncanny resemblance to his long-dead lover. Over the course of one long, hot summer, this first encounter sets of a string of strange and inexplicable encounters, all unfolding when the man is cruising or partying in the forest. He begins to wonder if these meetings are real or imagined, if they take place in the past or the present, all leading him to question the nature of time itself and his place within its flow.
Part ghost story and part love story, this is an ecstatic, elegiac, sexy and exquisitely written novel from a blazing talent.
