While rummaging through a pile of papers, Glyn discovers a snapshot of Kath, his recently deceased wife. It's one he's never seen before. Unaware that she was being photographed, Kath is holding hands and exchanging an intimate look with a man who, Glyn realizes with dismay, is clearly her lover. Glyn never suspected--how could he have been so blind? But now his eyes are open and he wants explanations--about his wife, her lover, the fallibility of memory and the uncertainty of the present, all prompted by his discovery.
In life Kath was strikingly attractive and maddeningly elusive. In death she's a ghostly presence, confounding Glyn and hovering just out of reach of the reader. Her story is told by means of a rotation of chapters among
