Cover art for Life Before Man
Published
Vintage Arrow, April 2023
ISBN
9781784877644
Format
Softcover, 336 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 13cm × 2.4cm

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Elizabeth has just lost her latest lover to suicide while Nate, her husband, is working up to run off with Lesje. And Lesje? She would rather be studying dinosaurs than distracted by men. As Elizabeth, Nate and Lesje find themselves imprisoned by walls of their own construction the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover hangs over them. Under his shadow, and in the spell of love, their lives will collide and entangle towards a single tragicomic climax.

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