Dr Edman, a middle-aged dermatologist, has been badly battered by work and competition at a Scandinavian research hospital. He and his wife Madeleine move to Southern Turkey in order to reinvent his life, obtaining fast-track citizenship on account of his employment at a military-related clinic. This proves a sinuous enterprise as he no longer has his strong-mindedness - only a great deal of sensitivity and pride - and he carries his irony and idiosyncrasies too far. At the beginning of Little Counsellor,?Dr Edman arrives in England to attend a conference, but his flight doesn't go as smoothly as planned - he's detained by the airport and misses the entire first day. "You have recently got Turkish citizenship. Can you tell us about that? Do you consider yourself a Muslim?" Energetically I shook my head. "Have you been in contact with any mosque here in London?" "I know the one at Finsbury Park from the outside," I retorted. Quite naively I thought I had everything under control. ...

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