Loving Monsters

About this book

A chance encounter in a local store leads a biographer to record the life of his enigmatic neighbor. From the terrace of a Tuscan villa comes the story of a tantalizing journey, leading the reader from the gas-lit streets of prewar London to Egypt in the months before World War II. Loving Monsters is a provocative novel from the winner of the 1991 Whitbread First Novel Award for Gerontius.