‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’ So begins Jay in Hanif Kureishis coruscating story of the end of a relationship. Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time togeth ‘It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.’ So begins Jay in Hanif Kureishis coruscating story of the end of a relationship. Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.