The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd

Kay Fischer was raised in Long Beach, California, by her mother and stepfather. She was born in German New Guinea where her real father worked as a missionary and two months after her birth died in a fire - or did he? When she's thirty-two, an elderly man, called Salvador Carriscant, accosts her claiming to be her father. He's half Scottish, half Spanish/Filipino and has lived nearly all his life in the Philippines (never in German New Guinea). He lets out only snippets of information, however, they're enough to intrigue her and make her doubt her mother's account. When he asks her to accompany him to El Paso to visit an old acquaintance from whom he hopes to ...  Read the complete review