Annie and Duncan fit together naturally, like jigsaw pieces, though Duncan`s passionate obsession with Tucker Crowe, the reclusive, tortured-genius songwriter, has never left much time for anything more meaningful - marriage, kids, conversations about something other than Tucker Crowe and his disappearance after a mysterious incident in a nightclub toilet twenty years previously. In fact, Annie`s starting to wonder whether she`s wasted fifteen years on a bad relationship, stuck in a dull job in a dull town on England`s bleak east coast. When Tucker`s record company suddenly issue a stripped-down version of his most famous album, Tucker`s first release for decades, and Annie just can`t see what`s good about it, or at least what`s better about it than the original, Duncan finds solace in bed with somebody else - and Annie is at last liberated to throw him out. But worse is to follow for Duncan: Annie is not alone in her opinion. After she posts a review on a fan website,...