Alexander (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781919540610)

London, 1989.

Six inevitable months.

When the National Gallery acquires an impossibly damaged painting, a renowned artist from Warsaw crosses the Iron Curtain on a mission to restore both the mysterious masterpiece and himself.

As historic change sweeps Europe and the Cold War drifts towards its end, Alexander enters the hypnotic, nicotine-fuelled haze of late-1980s London, where nothing is what it seems.

Away from a continent in flux and his powerful, overbearing father, Alexander arrives in a world obsessed with his talent. It's the weekly Monday afternoon calls and his new friends that keep him sane. Not for long.

And Tom?

As history gathers speed, Alexander's world begins to unravel.

Alexander is a story of battles: with time, with forbidden desire, with the inadequacy of language, with hope.