How well do you really know the people you love? How well do you know yourself? This novel is unflinching in its depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, and of the impulses that colour and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

Gypsies have always intrigued and fascinated - partly because of their mysterious origins, and partly because of the romance of nomadism. This book focuses particularly on the gypsies in Eastern Europe (an estimated 6 million), and their future as a distinct race within a nationalist Europe.

This examination of Bruno Fonseca's life, unorthodox training and diverse paintings, drawings and sculptures casts light not only upon his own work but also offers an insight into the creative process itself.

Jean Hubbard is a health columnist, her husband Mark, a successful advertising-executive. Jean opens an erotically charged email intended for Mark, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. Searching for answers Jean goes undercover: with a correspondence that propels her on to alarming adventures of her own.