Every morning he wakes up alone, thinking of Sophie. 

Thinking he can still smell her perfume and feel her presence even though he knows it’s been months since she stopped taking his calls. Every morning he wakes from a night spent with the memory of her touch and the warmth she brought him. Every morning, his first thought is of her. 

One morning he wakes and decides that the only way to move on is to find her and win her back. It’s only then that he begins to realise how little he ever really knew about Sophie... 

Set in London and Paris, Dan Gennoe’s debut is a dark dream of a novel, a sensual meditation on loneliness in the city and the grey area between love and obsession.

Fiction is addled with good girls gone bad right now. Gennoe takes the opposite approach in his dark, sensual and highly anticipated debut. His anti-hero is a man out of control as he pursues the woman he believes to be the love of his life. No good can come of it. — Grazia

“He didn’t question what he was doing there, or why she’d asked him to come.” A taster of Dan Gennoe’s debut novel, a story of a nameless man whose love mutates into fixation. In his attempt to find Sophie, he starts recalling their affair - only to find that his obsession may be the only true thing that ever existed between them. — ShortList