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In this tender, intimate story of an ordinary life defined by an extraordinary love, Ambrose Zephyr is told that he has just one month to live. He and his wife, Zipper, embark on an expedition to the places he has most loved or has always longed to visit, from A to Z, Amsterdam to Zanzibar.
CS Richardson's debut novel explores one couple's interminable love as they face a tragic loss. Precise and poignant, Richardson's succinct style reveals the depth a devotion unencumbered by professions and splendor, but rather sustained by compassion and loyalty.
"An abrupt death sentence given to a 50-year-old London ad exec forces an uneasy deliverance in Richardson's smartly setup, poignant tale. Given less than a month to live, Ambrose Zephyr, alphabet-obsessed since childhood, decides to spend out his last days traveling around the globe from A to Z. Ambrose and his wife, Zappora Ashkenazi (the couple is childless), begin in Amsterdam, viewing art by Velazquez and Rembrandt that has been significant to them in their loving marriage, and now looks wholly transformed. The two move between the sweet memories of past love and an unreal present, from Berlin to Chartres, the Great Pyramids of Khufu to Istanbul; when Ambrose begins to falter and they return home to their Kensington terrace flat. Reality and good manners demand that they inform their respective employers and friends of Ambrose's condition, while Zappora, a fashion editor attempting to keep a journal of the couple's last moments together, endures until the end. Richardson's tightly focused tale has panache, shadowed by a brooding suspense." -Publishers Weekly
"Nothing less than gorgeous, a short and intense novel structured around the beautiful cul de sac of the alphabet itself...The story is irresistible...Evocative and unforgettable, it manages to arouse both a longing for travel and a longing for home." -Calgary Herald
"There is something so immediately humane and honest about this story...something so old-fashionedly romantic..." -The Edmonton Journal
"The tone adopted by Richardson...is gentle, wistful, almost otherworldly-precisely because the focus of the tale is on the sweet relationship between husband and wife, and not on the cold sweat of mortality." -The Toronto Star
