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Freddie Montgomery has just been released from prison and is a new man. Under the pseudonym Felix Mordaunt he returns to the old mansion of his childhood, where the family now lives of the late Adam Godley, the great physicist whose theory revolutionised the conception of the
universe. Mordaunt joins the constellation formed by the famous scientist's eternally shadowed son, his irresistible wife Helen, a stubborn housewife, and the famous physicist's stubborn wife.
wife Helen, a stubborn housekeeper, a smitten biographer - almost a rival - and a woman from the past who asks Felix for an unexpected and dangerous favour. With this extraordinary novel that is at once a love story - at the centre of which is Helen, perhaps the author's most unforgettable female character - a thriller, an apocryphal biography and a scientific theory, Banville takes his narrative to new heights: "I can never write a book like this again," he has declared. "It's like all my books rolled into one.
ISBN: 9788420461144
