Lovesong

When John, an Australian tourist, meets Sabiha at a Tunisian café in Paris, a love story unfolds. They embark on a contented but unlikely marriage - a marriage of two cultures lived in a third - and yet they are essentially foreigners to each other; their love story sets in train an irrevocable course of tragic events. Years later, in Melbourne, Paris seems like a distant, troubling dream to John. He confides the story to Ken, an ageing writer who sees the possibility of one last love story. 'The latest novel by the Australian master, so admired by other writers.