num_pages: 288
description: Irene Beckman appears to have a perfect two grown children a house in a prosperous suburb of Copenhagen and a successful career as a family lawyer. She is cool sophisticated and still exotically good-looking the dyed hair her only concession to time.Then her husband announces that he's leaving her and her mother reveals some unexpected information about Irene's father. Suddenly Irene Beckman is neither wife nor daughter. Nor she realizes is it at all clear who she has been all these years. It is time to find out.From the internationally acclaimed author of Silence in October An Altered Light is another fascinating exploration of the nature of chance and relationships-between parents and children husbands and wives friends and strangers.
language: English
title: An Altered Light
publisher: Harcourt