Self Help
Synopsis
Twins Gabriel and Isabella Glover each live with their partners in London and New York. Beneath the daily facade of settled thirty-somethings, neither can find contentment in their unsatisfactory jobs and relationships. They have not spoken to their father, Nicholas, for ten years. Nicholas now lives in a lavish apartment in Paris with his lover Alessandro. Their Russian mother, Maria, has finally returned to St Petersburg after her defection from the Soviet Party to marry Nicholas. Following a series of increasingly distressing phone calls and letters, Gabriel rushes out to see her, only to find that she has suffered a fatal heart-attack. In the aftershock of her death, the twins finally begin to recognise the effect of Nicholas’ cruelty on their adult lives.
Author Biography
Edward worked as a staff journalist for five years on national newspapers in the UK - as a Sunday columnist and associate editor (arts). Since then, he has contributed to The Times, The Independent, The Washington Post and The Spectator and still writes for the papers from time to time on a freelance basis, as well as appearing on television and radio for various culture- and news-based shows. His first novel The Calligrapher was published in 2003. Ed lives in London.
