Gustav Sonata

''A perfect novel about life''s imperfection... Tremain is writing at the height of her inimitable powers...'' Kate Kellaway, Observer

What is the difference between friendship and love?

Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo.

But Gustav''s father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indiffer...