Morag Fraser

He's the son of a preacher, son of a Presbyterian preacher, whose best friend is a Methodist preacher.

And he falls in love with a black woman who he meets by accident.

One day in a rainstorm, he sees her carrying a pile of papers across the street.

She drops them.

He runs across the street, helps her pick them up.

She invites him in for a cup of tea.

That's where they meet.

The beginning of this particular novel, Jack, because Della has been a sort of a distant presence in the other, the three preceding novels, but in this one,

You get a very brief scene.

You think, what on earth is going on?

Something terrible happens between the two of them.

He walks out on her in a restaurant.

And then the next scene, 12 months later...

In a cemetery, at night, both of them inadvertently, so we think locked in, they meet again.

And then for 70 pages, 70 pages inside a cemetery, she sustains a conversation between the two of them.

And you know by then, it's all of those love stories, brief encounters, Romeo and Juliet, they fall in love.

That's right.

Early 50s.

Yeah.

Yeah.