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From the #1 internationally bestselling author of "The Moment" and "Five Days" comes "the best book about Morocco since "The Sheltering Sky. "Completely absorbing and atmospheric" (Philip Kerr) . Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. She is a meticulous accountant, almost forty. He is an artist and university professor, twenty years older. When Paul suggests a month in Morocco, where he once lived and worked, a place where the modern meets the medieval, Robin reluctantly agrees. Once immersed into the swirling, white hot exotica of a walled city on the North African Atlantic coast, Robin finds herself acclimatizing to its wonderful strangeness.