Silk

A haunting and delicately erotic novella -- Mail on Sunday. A heart-breaking love story told in the form of a classic fable A literary gem of bewitching power -- Sunday Times. An intensely powerful and perceptive drama of the deepest human desires. One of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read -- Daily Telegraph. Silk is the perfect pick-up book. A book of startling images and ideas -- Observer Young Herve Joncour has to leave his doting wife, Helene, and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu, France and travel across Siberia through to Japan, to obtain uncontaminated silkworm eggs for breeding. He meets a local baron's concubine and falls in love.