En Passant

<p>If you enjoyed The Queen's Gambit the chances are you'll enjoy this story of love and identity shaped by the game of chess.</p><p>Set for the greater part in Manhattan and Nottingham En Passant recounts two love stories twenty years apart connected by the life of Ian Stringfellow.</p><p>The stories are narrated by Helen Painter a fictional author who inspired by a holiday in New York her academic studies and her love of chess reflects on some big issues including social justice sexual identity suicide and the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. </p><p>The narrative also takes the reader to London Auschwitz Paris and Israel on a journey which will ultimately determine the romantic destinies both of Ian and Rebekah in the first half of the novel and of Adam and Rowan in the second half. </p><p>Ultimately through the many different human connections in En Passant the reader is prompted to reflect on whether it's irony or love which underpins our universe. </p>