Black Waltz (Paperback)

'A white-knuckle read' Guardian 'Melo's follow-up to the acclaimed Inferno is a cruelly focused, finely balanced and brilliantly written study. Her great achievement is to make what, on the surface, is a simple tale of a man's jealousy and mid-life doubt, into a swelling epic of grubby emotion and deep, empty despair' Sunday Herald 'The study of a man's disintegration into pathological jealousy ... her style is elastic ... the novel speeds along' Times Literary Supplement 'The terrible tale of a conductor whose jealousy of his younger wife teeters into paranoia' Evening Standard