Elena, Leo, Rose

Elena, Leo, Rose gives us the eternal triangle with a new twist and a sting in the tail. Polished and sensual as ever, Brackenbury's writing is here particularly searching and suspenseful: a love story that poses fundamental questions - and a definite page-turner.Elena, Leo, Rose is a novella very much in the territory of the classic French film, Jules et Jim. I love that this concentrated novella is not cerebral or theoretical but primarily a rich and moving evocation of being embodied in this world. Though there is loneliness, confusion and heartache here, it is at heart a fine short book about the joy of being alive.Andrew Greig, author of Rose Nicolson