A beautiful young woman

Edward is a successful virologist - works, travel, affairs -, Ruth fifteen years younger and a sociology student. He falls hopelessly in love with her, the two become a couple and get married. But here, where many novels end, Edward's actual story begins. The self-confident scientist who kills the experimental animals himself when it serves his career does not stand up to Ruth's moral demands. Edward realises that his better self has been left behind in his rapid ascent - forever? Ruthless, sensitive and precise, Tommy Wieringa tells of the great love that befalls a man in the middle of life and questions his whole person.