Michael Arditti's passionate and provocative new novel combines tender
romance with a unique and richly observed setting. A woman wakes in a
Lourdes hotel room beside her lover of just two days. She has brought her
brain-damaged husband on a pilgrimage to seek a miracle cure; her lover is
making a TV documentary to mark the shrine's 150th anniversary year.
Setting aside personal doubts, family ties and spiritual differences, they
embark on a turbulent affair from which neither they nor those around them
will emerge unchanged.