The writer Faye travels to a literary festival in Europe and passes through a series of encounters with publishers, interviewers and fellow passengers who talk at length about their lives. The final novel of the Outline trilogy, told almost entirely through what others confide to her.
Books mentioned in Kudos (3)
She Got Up and Went Away by Stevie Smith: Epigraph: 'She got up and went away ...' signed 'She Got Up and Went Away', Stevie Smith (epigraph)
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot: “'if he were to pick up the Four Quartets today he didn't doubt it would cause him pain'”
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: “'to see Dante awarded a single star ... and his Divine Comedy described as "complete shit"'”