Stowaways

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.

Maybe we love people because they wont let us know them.

A summers evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heats hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. Thats when it arrives. An email with the subject line: From Paul Axel. An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message hed like her to relay.

Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Pauls final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.

Readers adored Stowaways:

I have unashamedly fallen in love with Andre Acimans writing. . . I couldnt stop reading until the very last page.
Its a really beautiful book of two people talking about love.
Poignant, heart-warming, stimulating and challenging. All readers should recognise something of themselves in this story.
I had no idea what to expect going into this book but in true André Aciman style, I was floored by the sheer beauty of it.