Gut Symmetries Paperback – 1 April 2013

A funny and tender celebration of Love in all Its frailty, confusion and excess from the author of oranges are not the only fruit and why be happy when you could be normal? Travelling across the Atlantic in Board the Alice, a British physicist in her way to a research job at the Institute for Advanced Studies, New Jersey. Meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the most respected quantum physicists in the world and a confirmed Lothario, by the time the pair land in New York, she has become his mistress. An affair of the heart which is only complicated further when Alice falls for Jove's wife, Stella. Alongside this love triangle are the stories of previous generations. Stella's parents one German, one Jewish who fled Nazi Germany together. Alice's parents, her father a working class boy bade good from the dockyards of Liverpool, her mother, an Irish beauty and Alice's Grandmother. Bible-Fearing, tough, still going out to working her nineties, a kind of mythological creature, a worker of small miracles. A celebration of the human heart in all Its frailty, confusion and excess, gut symmetries, explores parallel lives, loves and universes.

Categories: Contemporary Fiction