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Part 1: Homeless
1904. Tomás is a widower who lives in Alfama, Lisbon. Working as an assistant in the National Museum of Ancient Art he finds the diary of Father Ulisses, a homesick missionary worker who died in São Tomé in 1635, while slave trade was blooming. The missionary has manufactured a crucifix that was later given to a small church in Trás-os-Montes. Tomás borrows an early Renault from his rich uncle and drives to the North East of Portugal. He commits a hit-and-run after accidentally killing a young, blond boy. In a small church Tuizelo he finds the crucifix, on which Jesus has the face of a chimpanzee.

Part 2: Homeward
New Year's Eve, 1938. Eusebio Lozora is a medical examiner in Bragança. He has a conversation with his deceased wife Maria. She compares the novels of Agatha Christie to the New Testament. Then he receives a visit from Maria Castro. She has the corpse of her husband Rafael with her. He was the father of the blond child that was killed in Part 1. During an autopsy Eusebio finds a chimpanzee and a bear cub inside of the corpse.

Part 3: Home
1981. Peter Tovy is a senator in Ottawa with a heart disease. After the death of his wife he travels to Oklahoma City, where he decides to adopt a chimpanzee named Odo. He takes the animal with him to Tuizelo. By accident he ends up in the house where he was born - before his family emigrated to Canada. In a local church he finds the old crucifix and a photo of the blond boy, who's thought to be an angel by the local population. Peter climbs a rock to follow Odo, and dies.

Reception
At the 2016 Governor General's Awards, Christophe Bernard was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for the novel's French translation, Les hautes montagnes du Portugal.

Biography
Kandace Springs was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1989. Her father Scat Springs was a session singer in Nashville. She has two sisters. At the age of ten she started following piano lessons. She grew up listening to jazz and soul singers like Nina Simone. She was noted for performing Sam Smith's Stay with Me on the internet. She moved to New York City to work with Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers. She believes that music can touch people, spread a message, keep the world sane.

In 2014 she released her debut EP for the jazz label Blue Note Records. It was produced by Pop & Oak. Love Got in the Way was her first music video. She collaborated with Ghostface Killah on his 2014 single Love Don't Live Here No More. She performed live on several TV shows: the Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Prince asked her to perform with him on stage.

For her 2016 album Soul Eyes she kept working with Sturken and Rogers, but she also attracted producer Larry Klein, who praised her as a natural talent. Collaborating artists were trumpeter Terence Blanchard, guitarists Dean Parks and Jesse Harris, and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta. Her 2018 album Indigo was produced by Karriem Riggins. It combines the vocal jazz tradition with modern R&B influences and a trumpet solo by Roy Hargrove.

Discography
1973 Alvin Stardust - My Coo Ca Choo 1975 Radiah - Play-Boy-Scout Chen Yi - Percussion Concerto (1998) Libby Larsen – Marimba Concerto: After Hampton (1992) Einojuhani Rautavaara – Harp Concerto (2000)
 * 2016 Soul Eyes
 * 2018 Indigo
 * EPs
 * 2014 Kandace Springs
 * Collaborations
 * 2014 Love Don't Live Here No More (with Ghostface Killah)
 * 2015 Stay Clear (with Black Violin)
 * 2016 New York Minute (with Lang Lang)
 * 2017 Daydream (with Ambrose Akinmusire)
 * 2018 Faded (with Kings of Tomorrow)

Synopsis
Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties, lives in Street Grainge with her two companions Diana and Anne. One day her servant Fred finds a rotting corpse in their ice house, a storage room inside a hillock that hasn't been used for years.

DCI George Walsh thinks it may be the corpse of Phoebe's husband David, who went missing ten years ago. Back then Walsh suspected her for killing her husband, but this was never proven. Since then Phoebe has been the fodder for local gossip. Inhabitants of the village believe the three women are dykes and that Phoebe did not only kill her husband but also her parents by sabotaging the brakes of their car. Dily Barnes has forbidden her children Peter and Emma to play with Phoebe's children Jonathan and Jane.

The grounds are searched and the three women and Phoebe's grown-up children are questioned by DS Andy McLoughlin, whose wife has just left him for another police officer. He kisses Anne during an interrogation.

Medical examiner Webster says the corpse can only be between two and three months old. A list of missing persons includes the names Keith Chapel, an impoverished car mechanic, and Daniel Thompson. Thompson's wife is interrogated.

One night there a burglar in Street Grainge smashes Anne's skull. She recovers in the hospital, but she doesn't remember who attacked her.

Wally Ferris, a tramp who has been seen in the environment, confesses he has been in the ice house and stole the clothes of a dead man. The man is identified as Keith Chapel, the mechanic who neglected to check the brakes of Phoebe's parents' car and went bankrupt after that. He died from the cold and part of his flesh was eaten by rats after Wally left open the door of the ice house.

Daniel Thompson turns out to be alive. financial

A group of burglars is caught at Street Grainge. After Jonathan fires a gun between his legs Peter Barnes confesses that he was the one who smashed Anne's skull. Peter was instigated by the nasty gossip of his mother and other village people.

When the three women are left in McLoughlin's company they talk openly about how Phoebe killed her husband ten years ago. His corpse was buried behind a wall in the cellar.

Alice Loudon, a pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London, leaves her boyfriend Jake to marry Adam Tallis, a mountain climber she only met recently. When Adam shows violent behaviour Alice starts asking questions about his past. She finds out that he saved people's lives during an expedition on the Chungawat in the Himalayas. Several people died in this expedition, including his former girlfriend Françoise. A woman who read an article about this claims to be raped by Adam, but he was acquitted. When Alice starts suspecting that Adam has killed several of his ex-girlfriends people in her environment think she needs psychiatric help.

Characters

 * Alice Loudon: pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London
 * Adam Tallis: mountain climber with whom Alice falls in love
 * Jake: Alice's boyfriend in the beginning of the story
 * Greg McLaughlin: leader of the Chungawat expedition in the Himalayas
 * Joanna: journalist from the Participant
 * Michelle Stowe: woman who claims to be raped by Adam
 * Caroline Vaughan: Alice's general practitioner
 * Sherpa: Alice's cat
 * DI Bob Byrne

Reception
Publishers Weekly: "With lucid and limber prose, French delves into Alice's thoughts as skillfully as she describes the london setting. The pacing is swift and the dialogue sharp and realistic."

Adaptation
In Kaige Chen's film adaptation of 2002 Heather Graham played Alice, and Joseph Fiennes Adam.