Peace Talks

'A moving and direct study of frailty, love and time and luck and grief' Guardian
Edvard Behrends is a diplomat, highly regarded for his work on international peace negotiations. Under his arbitration, unimaginable atrocities are coolly dissected; invisible lines, grown taut and frayed with conflict, redrawn.
In his latest post, Edvard has been sent to a nondescript hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear.
He confides in no one - no one but his wife Anna. Anna, who he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent.

Tim Finch is a leading campaigner & writer on refugee and migrant issues and the author of one previous novel, The House of Journalists. His writing has been published in the The Times, Guardian and Spectator. He has broadcast frequently on the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and CNN. He formerly worked as a director of the leading think tank IPPR, was a director at the Refugee Council and worked as a senior political journalist at the BBC. He is the founder of two charities, Sponsor Refugees and Counterpoints Arts, and also founded the migration communications agency IMIX. He collaborated with the artist Ai Weiwei on his acclaimed 2017 documentary Human Flow. He lives in London.