Whatever Love Means

* Second novel from TV writer/comedian and novelist - and again, a bitter-sweet romantic tragicomedy. Like most people, Vic Mullan - once described by his best friend Joe as 'a man whose sense of social responsibility is exhausted by pulling over to let an ambulance by' - can remember where he was and what he was doing on the day of Princess Diana's death. Yes, he can remember it particularly well: he was at home, beginning an affair with Emma, Joe's wife. Whatever Love Means charts the history of an intense and passionately sexual liaison set against the background of the most hysterical time in recent memory. But as the months wear on, and life and love return to normal, so things become more complex between Vic and Emma. And then, tragedy - a real, local, small-scale tragedy, as opposed to a national, iconic, mythological one - intervenes. 'I read it in one sitting with awe . . . a thriller and a love story constructed with a sinister symmetry where everything comic is shadowed by something dark' Sunday Times 'A black, sometimes tender read ...An impressive and intelligent book from a novelist who deserves to be taken seriously' - THE TIMES 'An impressive and intelligent book from a novelist who deserves to be taken seriously' The Times