TIME BEING

When Laura Cameron a philosophy professor at a London university is found dead in a bizarre echo of the Reeva Steenkamp case the questions are myriad Her friend and colleague Esther Luck is as shocked as everyone else But Esther knows more than she s letting on After two years battling illness her notions of what makes life worth living of what her future holds have changed utterly Held in a tense web of intrigue between Laura s widower Jack her ex Michel and her conventional family Esther is given the chance of new life on borrowed time as the mystery of Laura s death deepens What follows is an exploration of guilt mortality freedom time and the brilliant and beautiful puzzle of being alive