This is a tale of two love stories: one between English Joseph who follows married mum Marta to her native Poland to continue their affair, the second between a man and a country which explores what it means to belong. I found the first rather melancholic and slow-moving, but the second is suffused with poetic, elegant language which creates a real sense of place (pre-EU midwinter Krakow) and a true understanding of loneliness.
