A Particular Man

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love never dies in this novel by a writer of addictive emotional thrillers</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(<em>The Independent</em>).</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told from three perspectives </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Particular Man</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is about love truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling. In Edgar's final moments Starling makes him a promise. When after the war he visits Edgar's family to fulfil this promise Edgar's mother Clementine mistakes him for another man. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her mistake allows him access to Edgar's home and to those who loved him stirring powerful and disorientating emotions and embroiling him in a web of deceit.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The loss has driven his sister Aida to seek solace in the arms of a series of men - but the meeting with Starling sparks a powerful and complex connection fuelled by their mutual longing for Edgar.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile Clementine also grieving for Edgar has secrets of her own... </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>O</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>ne of Britain's finest novelists. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Sunday Telegraph</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>[Glaister] commands respect for writing novels which are not just dark and mysterious but also emotionally satisfying. -</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Times Literary Supplement</em></p><p><br></p><p>An<span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> expert plotter. -</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Scotsman</em></p><p><br></p>