This is a complex novel that requires a lot of effort from the reader but it will be time well spent. The hero, Parker has many issues and problems having renounced the priesthood and has somehow found himself collecting, scavenging and selling assorted memorabilia for Evelyn Robinson.

This allows an exploration of a mixed bag of characters from the time of the Second World war as the book ranges in the and place from wartime Berlin to the London of today.

You need to concentrate on who is who and what is actually transpiring but the book is entertaining and certainly thought provoking and I am sure it will be seen on the big screen too.