Distractions Christopher Buehlman See the world

See the world

On a train bound for Portsmouth

deluded match-making and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India

But on an island at war

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops

Distractions Christopher Buehlman See the worldThe setting, as always, is the Midlands but it differs from most of his other work in that the central characters are not middle or lower middle class, but very well to do, even aristocratic. The novel opens with the funeral of Edward Fielding's first wife. She has died by her own hand after years of mental illness the first of the distractions which are implied in the title. Edward, too, has behaved in unexpected ways. He loved and cherished his wife