Amsterdam: A Novel

Synopsis

Booker prize winner • national bestseller • a sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, amsterdam is "a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned" (the new york times) from the bestselling author of atonement. On a chilly february day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a london crematorium to pay their last respects to molly lane. Both clive linley and vernon halliday had been molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: clive is britain's most successful modern composer, and vernon is a newspaper editor.