Kirjahaku

Arthur Washington is lonely, lost and drunk in Spain. After several weeks of a not so inspiring trip, two things happen that rock Arthur's world.Firstly, he spends a night a sea with an enigmatic woman who goes by the name of Coco, and secondly, he is discovered at the bottom of a cliff, a broken, bloody mess.Did he jump, fall or get pushed?His uncle, Tito, a roguish film producer with an addiction he ain't about to kick, enlists the services of Emilio, a wannabe actor with a secret life, and together they struggle to rehabilitate Arthur over the summer.But holed-up in a fourth floor apartment overlooking the esplanade and sea below, Arthur descends deeper into alcoholism as he passes his days by the balcony doors, glued to an antique telescope in the vain hope that Coco walks by.Then one afternoon she does.

Vanessa is gone - killed in a terrorist attack in Paris - and her father, Paul Greene, can't cope. He packs up his life in Australia and moves to France to feel closer to her. Eventually he settles in the south, but his life soon becomes nothing more than one long, drunk afternoon by the sea.Then a surprise email from a close friend of his daughter's changes everything, and when he meets her at Toulon Train Station he is immediately enchanted by her beauty.With plans to restore a villa over the summer, Villa Vanessa, in the memory of his daughter, the pair grow close.But when they get too close, things can only fall apart.Villa Vanessa is a tale of loss, betrayal and lust set against the sunny south of France.