Review

Between Each Breath

By Adam Thorpe

Published by Vintage

Jack Middleton, once England's most promising composer, now lives comfortably in Hampstead with his heiress wife. When he visits Estonia in search of inspiration he falls for a young waitress, deeply bound up in the suffering of her country.

Still childless six years later, Jack and Milly's marriage shows the strain but they battle on - until the past returns with a vengeance in the hot days after the London bombings.

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