Publisher's Synopsis
Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer. If his wife had murmured a single reproach, he would immediately have made a clean breast of things. Instead, her reaction to his sudden need for a lone fishing holiday in the Highlands seemed positively encouraging. So it is that Ashburner finds himself changing the luggage labels in the taxi to Heathrow, and checking in with his companions on the flight to Moscow... "Razor sharp" NEW YORK TIMES Marvellously deft...comedy is secreted everywhere, like honey; but it is a surreal little honeycomb, with sharp teeth." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
