The Telegraph (UK) calls Aminatta Forna's Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning tale an 'affecting, passionate and intelligent novel about the redemptive power of love and storytelling.' In the aftermath of Sierra Leone's 1990s civil war, British psychologist Adrian Lockheart comes to work at the Freetown hospital. There he meets a dying elderly patient who confesses to Adrian his past crimes of passion and betrayal. '. stunning and powerful .'-Booklist