Villa Pacifica

by Kapka Kassabova

  You see, those we love may leave us, one way or another, and never return. And, gradually, they fall out of date. But those we have loved and betrayed are always near, one way or another.

  And that has made all the difference.

  ‌Acknowledgements

  I am very grateful to the Scottish Arts Council, for generously supporting the writing of this novel.

  My thanks to Chris Mosse for his moral and literary support in reading an early draft of the novel.

  I would not have been able to finish this novel without the love and support of my parents in Auckland, who gave me a home at a time when I felt homeless.