Constance

Luminous and full of longing, Constance is a novel of teenage fragility, male blindness and everyday complicity.

In the summer of 2006, a chance encounter on the London Underground finds eighteen-year-old Ali tagging along with a school friend and a mysterious girl to a club. The girl is Cece, and she seems to be everything Ali is not. For one night he is transfixed and transformed into someone who might belong. All he knows is he will remember it forever.

In 2064, Ali takes his final flight out of the UK to Morocco, in a world upturned by climate collapse. He has a wife and a daughter, reasons to return. Yet Ali is willing to abandon everything to find Cece again, finally to recapture that long summer night when he was young, and to understand how the actions taken - and not taken - have changed all their lives.

Author: Joseph Zigmond
Publisher: Indigo Press
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.29w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781911648567

About the Author
Joseph Zigmond started as a HarperCollins graduate trainee in 2011, before joining William Collins as editorial assistant the following year. He has since gone on to acquire a range of non-fiction titles, including books by Bella Mackie, Microsoft c.e.o. Satya Nadella's, and Dunkirk by historian Joshua Levine, which he commissioned directly from the author and which was made into a Christopher Nolan film of the same name. He went on to work as senior commissioning editor for John Murray. Constance is his first book.