Early on in Tim Finch’s hypnotic novel Peace Talks, the narrator — the diplomat Edvard Behrends, who facilitates international peace negotiations — reflects: ‘Peace talks settle into this repeating pattern after a while, a pattern like that of the floor carpets in places like this conference centre, in which a polygonal weave mesmerises the eye almost to a vanishing point.’
Emily Rhodes
The art of negotiation: Peace Talks, by Tim Finch, reviewed
When not chairing conferences, the diplomat Edvard Behrends tries to find his own peace in this affecting novel
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