Laura Laura

<p><strong>¿[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny.¿¿Tessa Hadley</strong></p><p>An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront the mystery of his own past and to ask himself if he has lived a good life ¿ or even a decent one.</p><p>In the course of this very funny, sometimes disturbing and often moving novel, suppressed memories return to haunt him, including the question of the role he played in a family tragedy. Above all he has to assess the harm he may have done in a long-forgotten love affair.</p><p>Those close to him suddenly appear unfathomable as he begins to question if he truly knows those closest to him and even himself.</p><p>The problem with exploring the past, Gerald begins to see, is that there are an