No Storm, Just Weather

A woman meets a man at Tegel Airport in Berlin who is 36 years old and 18 years her junior. They try to make a life together, but their jobs are precarious. The woman's memories and everyday life become entwined, and she wonders if she is still the person she remembers or if she has forgotten.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2024
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

An engaging exploration of romance focusing on disparate ages of lovers.

Sunday evening, Tegel Airport, Berlin: A woman strikes up a conversation with a man, Robert Sturm, who is thirty-six years old and eighteen years her junior. He is on his way to Siberia and will return the following Saturday. She cannot wait.

In 1981, she came to West Berlin as an eighteen-year-old to study medicine and met Viktor, who was twice her age. Though he opened the world up to her, he remained closed himself. At the turn of the millennium and thirty-six, she meets Johann. He is thirty-six too. They try to make a life together, but their jobs are not the only things that are precarious.

Saturday morning, Tegel Airport again: For six days, her everyday life and her memories have become entwined. Why are the men in her life always thirty-six? Is she still the person she remembers? Or, being someone who knows their way around the mind, is she, in fact, what she has forgotten?

Dimension: 9 x 6 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803091488