Hannah Luckraft's family is wounded, her friends are frankly odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. Hannah travels in search of ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise.

A compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty, "Paradise" is the finest book yet by one of Britain's most extraordinarily gifted writers.