A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes
and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs
One unforgettable love story
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich
Waking Up in Toytown, John Burnside romance A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS'In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs are not quite as normal as he had imagined and, as he relapses into chaos, he encounters a homicidal office worker who is obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and Petula Clark, an old lover, with whom he reprises a troubled, masochistic relationship and, finally,