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Monica Ali's stunning second book is a assortment of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time. Teresa is a lovely young girl from the village who's likely to marry the right man from the same community but who wants to start to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who's losing business to the new internet café down the road. The unseemly, dysfunctional, but strangely riveting Pottses are a family of ex-patriots, seeking to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a couple engaged to be married and confronting each others weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time and an older woman imagining a fresh life, fantasizing about never returning home.
