Your Life Without Me by James Meek

Your Life Without Me

James Meek

Mr Burman is just about coping with the death of his wife in a car accident but why wouldn't their grown up daughter talk to either of them and could it possibly have been his influence that led one of his star pupils to try to blow up St Paul's Cathedral? An intriguing meditation on marriage, fatherhood - and architecture!

Extract

It was unsettling, the way Ada had opted out of photographs with Leila after that, as if she'd died before her mother, instead of the other way round. Had it been that evening that it began to curdle, whatever it was? Had it not been good?

Parallels
  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  • The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
  • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett