The Weight Of Skin

You would not think it to look at you, but your voice, when you use it: akin to a god's.

You must be careful what you do with it.' Exiled Jacob Kitara takes in injured compatriots and nurses them in a boarded-up building. Social unrest has emptied the streets of London, movement into and out of the country has been suspended, and those who remain are in hiding.

When a young man makes his appearance, insisting that he is Jacob's son a man presumed dead, torn from Jacob's life by war and guilt over the fate of the boy's mother Jacob is driven to anger.

But can this stranger offer Jacob a chance to reach back to a different continent, to the foot of Africa from where he has been banished, to atone for the past?