After

After is the stunning story of an intense erotic affair that takes place over a day and a night.

It has been a year since the woman's husband was murdered by Islamic extremists. Now she decides to take a lover, a Muslim man.

He is courtly, nervous and married with two daughters.

Telling their story from both points of view, Claire Tristram describes their passion and their tenderness, their shifting desires and hesitations, the unexpected escalation of their lovemaking into terrifying violence.

Praise for After:

'As disturbing, challenging and subversive a debut novel as I have read in many years. Here's a very cunning, fearless writer, full of promise and surprise.'

Jim Crace

'Anyone looking to take a walk on the wild side will relish this fiercely erotic debut…Tristram does a fine job of keeping the reader on a knife edge.'

Kirkus Reviews

'Tristram skillfully ponders fidelity to one's self, spouse and identity in a post-9/11 world…This book, raw like the characters' wounds, resonates long after the last sentence is read.'

Publishers Weekly