Inspired by a real house, this is the tale of the people that come and go from Landauer House over the years, as it passes from Czech to Russian hands. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it follows Mawer's previous novels The Gospel Of Judas, The Fall and Swimming To Ithaca.
"Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to board...