Alex tells his story in letters to the women he his mother, his wife and his lover. But Alex is a man for whom love means to seek to annihilate and he writes with the unfathomable, rational calm of the deranged mind as the line between obsessive love and extreme hatred blurs..
Melissa Jones was born in London in 1965. She has written three critically-acclaimed novels: Cold in Earth (1998), Sick at Heart (1999) and Emily Hudson (2010).
She has also written an architectural book called Interiors for Under 5s published by Wiley in 2005.