Book review: Dancing to the End of Love

ROBERT LANAGHAN is a writer. Or, at least, he was, but, since his second book was published, he hasn’t written. Life has got in the way.

There was his passionate affair with Siobhan McGovern, a famous, if rather whacky, singer. She turned up at his book launch, fell for him, and lives with him, having become pregnant.

She hops off on tour, leaving Robert to care for their baby, Ciara, and, on her return, ceremoniously dumps him. Accepting an astronomical sum of money in return for a promise that he will never see his daughter again, Robert leaves, and spends his time travelling aimlessly around Europe to escape himself.