The Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo.
An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply an.
Gustav’s life is a lonely one until he meets Anton.
But Gustav’s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him.
The Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo