Revenge Condition:Very Good with its quiet heroine and

with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity

Now retired

if he is ever to return to the London that he knew

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life

Revenge Condition:Very Good with its quiet heroine andA woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly