"A Unique Distance" is Aline P'nina Tayar's first novel and draws on the time she spent in South America. When Esther Nahon returns to her birthplace, Peru, to research the life of a great uncle, her path crosses that of Alain Verdier, the French lover she had walked out on thirty years ago in Paris. Can they revive an affair about which each has different and often conflicting memories? This is the question at the heart of a bitter-sweet romance told partly through e-mails.
The author has just completed a second novel for which she is seeking representation, "Island of Dreams", set against the backdrop of the current turmoil in the Mediterranean caused by the events of the "Arab Spring". This book too is an exploration of the unreliability of memory.
Tayar was born in Malta and raised in Israel and Australia. With a home in Bath, she travels regularly to Brussels where she works as a conference interpreter for the institutions of the EU. She is also a published poet.