The Linguist

Howard is thirty-two; an interpreter and a prostitute. Howard fell in love with Corinne. Corinne's husband, Mathew, fell in love with Howard. Now, two years after Corinne's death (for which Howard feels responsible), Matthew is ill in hospital and wants reconciliation. But for Howard there are questions to be answered: Why, if Mathew was so estranged, has he decided to leave Howard so much money? And why can't he connect with women, sexually, unless they pay him? Howard has always regarded himself as well adjusted, but when he discovers that Corinne was in therapy at the time of her death, he begins to realise that the nervous breakdown he suffered whilst at university remains unresolved. In The Linguist, not everything is as it seems -- and not everyone has been telling the truth about their feelings. This compelling and emotionally shattering novel is the latest from the acclaimed author of On the Edge, Two, Heroes Are Hard to Find and The Cruelty of Silence.